Annual gross primary production from vegetation indices: A theoretically sound approach

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Gilabert, María Amparo ^a   Sánchez Ruiz, Sergio ^a   Moreno, álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Annual GPP; EVI; MODIS; Monteith model; NDVI; PAR

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS;

ANNUAL GPP; CALIBRATION/VALIDATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODIS; NDVI; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING;

VEGETATION;

EID: 85019359161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030193     Document Type: Article

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