A 30+ year AVHRR LAI and FAPAR climate data record: Algorithm description and validation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Claverie, Martin ^a,b   Matthews, Jessica L ^c,d   Vermote, Eric F ^b   Justice, Christopher O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Climate data record; FAPAR; LAI; Land product validation; MODIS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

AVHRR; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; FAPAR; MODIS; PRODUCT VALIDATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84962537590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030263     Document Type: Article

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