The 2013 FLEX-US airborne campaign at the parker tract loblolly pine plantation in North Carolina, USA

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Middleton, Elizabeth M ^a   Rascher, Uwe ^b   Corp, Lawrence A ^c   Huemmrich, K Fred ^d   Cook, Bruce D ^a   Noormets, Asko ^e   Schickling, Anke ^b   Pinto, Francisco ^b,n   Alonso, Luis ^f   Damm, Alexander ^g   Guanter, Luis ^h   Colombo, Roberto ⁱ   Campbell, Petya K E ^d   Landis, David R ^j   Zhang, Qingyuan ^k   Rossini, Micol ⁱ   Schuettemeyer, Dirk ^l   Bianchi, Remo ^m  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NASA Goddard Space Flight Center   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^j Global Science and Technology Inc   (United States)

^k University Space Research Associates   (United States)

^l EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^m ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

ⁿ INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

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Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Diurnal responses; Far red SIF; Fratio; G LiHT; GEP; HyPlant; LUE; Red SIF; SIF ratio

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NASA; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION; SPACE FLIGHT;

CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; DIURNAL RESPONSES; F-RATIO; FAR-RED SIF; G-LIHT; HYPLANT; RED SIF; SIF RATIO;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 85021139311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9060612     Document Type: Article

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