Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J Xiao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

Terrestrial biogeochemical cycles: Global estimates with remote sensing

DS Schimel - Remote sensing of environment, 1995 - Elsevier
The carbon and nitrogen cycles are crucial for understanding the changing Earth system,
influencing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, primary productivity of the …

Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system

P Ciais, AJ Dolman, A Bombelli, R Duren… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
A globally integrated carbon observation and analysis system is needed to improve the
fundamental understanding of the global carbon cycle, to improve our ability to project future …

Integrating remote sensing and ecosystem process models for landscape-to regional-scale analysis of the carbon cycle

DP Turner, SV Ollinger, JS Kimball - BioScience, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract A growing body of research has demonstrated the complementary nature of remote
sensing and ecosystem modeling in studies of terrestrial carbon cycling. Whereas remote …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in remote sensing technology and implications for measuring and monitoring forest carbon stocks and change

S Goetz, R Dubayah - Carbon Management, 2011 - researchgate.net
Forest monitoring using satellite imagery has advanced tremendously over the past few
decades, to the point that these datasets now inform international policy agreements …

The decadal state of the terrestrial carbon cycle: Global retrievals of terrestrial carbon allocation, pools, and residence times

AA Bloom, JF Exbrayat… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The terrestrial carbon cycle is currently the least constrained component of the global carbon
budget. Large uncertainties stem from a poor understanding of plant carbon allocation …

Commentary: carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: a multitechnique approach for improved understanding

JG Canadell, HA Mooney, DD Baldocchi, JA Berry… - Ecosystems, 2000 - Springer
Understanding terrestrial carbon metabolism is critical because terrestrial ecosystems play a
major role in the global carbon cycle. Furthermore, humans have severely disrupted the …

Importance of biomass in the global carbon cycle

RA Houghton, F Hall, SJ Goetz - Journal of Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Our knowledge of the distribution and amount of terrestrial biomass is based almost entirely
on ground measurements over an extremely small, and possibly biased sample, with many …

Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of US terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations

J Xiao, Q Zhuang, BE Law, DD Baldocchi… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2011 - Elsevier
More accurate projections of future carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and
associated climate change depend on improved scientific understanding of the terrestrial …

Data-driven diagnostics of terrestrial carbon dynamics over North America

J Xiao, SV Ollinger, S Frolking, GC Hurtt… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2014 - Elsevier
The exchange of carbon dioxide is a key measure of ecosystem metabolism and a critical
intersection between the terrestrial biosphere and the Earth's climate. Despite the general …