Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR product collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and improvements

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Yan, Kai ^a,b   Park, Taejin ^b   Yan, Guangjian ^a   Chen, Chi ^b   Yang, Bin ^b,c   Liu, Zhao ^b   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^d   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^b   Myneni, Ranga B ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collection 6; Consistency; Evaluation; Fraction of photo synthetically active radiation (FPAR); Leaf area index (LAI); MODIS

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE RADIATION; CONSISTENCY; EVALUATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84971455126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050359     Document Type: Article

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