Soil drought anomalies in MODIS GPP of a mediterranean broadleaved evergreen forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1154-1180

  Liu, Jia ^a,b,c   Ramba, Serge ^b,d   Mouillot, Florent ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of water Resources   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Evergreen broadleaf forest; Gross primary production; Light use efficiency; Mediterranean type ecosystems; MODIS; Soil drought

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE;

BROADLEAF FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE ECOSYSTEMS; MODIS; SOIL DROUGHT;

SOILS;

EID: 84971507757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70101154     Document Type: Article

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