Reviews and syntheses: Australian vegetation phenology: New insights from satellite remote sensing and digital repeat photography

Biogeosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 5085-5102

  Moore, Caitlin E ^a,b   Brown, Tim ^c   Keenan, Trevor F ^d,e   Duursma, Remko A ^f   Van Dijk, Albert I J M ^g   Beringer, Jason ^h   Culvenor, Darius ⁱ   Evans, Bradley ^j   Huete, Alfredo ^k   Hutley, Lindsay B ^l   Maier, Stefan ^l   Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^k   Sonnentag, Oliver ^m   Specht, Alison ^n,o   Taylor, Jeffrey R ^p   Van Gorsel, Eva ^q   Liddell, Michael J ^r  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

ⁱ Environmental Sensing Systems   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^l CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^o Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity   (France)

^p Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists   (Canada)

^q CSIRO   (Australia)

^r JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; LIFE CYCLE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84987749296     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-5085-2016     Document Type: Review

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