Monitoring and assessing the 2012 drought in the great plains: Analyzing satellite-retrieved solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, drought indices, and gross primary production

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Siheng ^a,b   Huang, Changping ^a   Zhang, Lifu ^a   Lin, Yi ^c   Cen, Yi ^a   Wu, Taixia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought indices; Drought monitoring; Great plains; Gross primary production (GPP); Hyperspectral remote sensing; Solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; DROUGHT INDICES; DROUGHT MONITORING; GREAT PLAINS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING;

DROUGHT;

EID: 84962592237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020061     Document Type: Article

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