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 …

What is global photosynthesis? History, uncertainties and opportunities

Y Ryu, JA Berry, DD Baldocchi - Remote sensing of environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying global terrestrial photosynthesis is essential to understanding the global carbon
cycle and the climate system. Remote sensing has played a pivotal role in advancing our …

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

K Guan, M Pan, H Li, A Wolf, J Wu, D Medvigy… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The response of tropical forests to droughts is highly uncertain. During the dry season,
canopy photosynthesis of some tropical forests can decline, whereas in others it can be …

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

J Wu, LP Albert, AP Lopes, N Restrepo-Coupe… - Science, 2016 - science.org
In evergreen tropical forests, the extent, magnitude, and controls on photosynthetic
seasonality are poorly resolved and inadequately represented in Earth system models …

Relationship between remotely-sensed vegetation indices, canopy attributes and plant physiological processes: What vegetation indices can and cannot tell us about …

EP Glenn, AR Huete, PL Nagler, SG Nelson - Sensors, 2008 - mdpi.com
Vegetation indices (VIs) are among the oldest tools in remote sensing studies. Although
many variations exist, most of them ratio the reflection of light in the red and NIR sections of …

Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled‐process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global …

Y Ryu, DD Baldocchi, H Kobayashi… - Global …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We propose the Breathing Earth System Simulator (BESS), an upscaling approach to
quantify global gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration using MODIS with a spatial …

An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network–OzFlux

J Beringer, LB Hutley, I McHugh, SK Arndt… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
OzFlux is the regional Australian and New Zealand flux tower network that aims to provide a
continental-scale national research facility to monitor and assess trends, and improve …

Forest productivity and water stress in Amazonia: Observations from GOSAT chlorophyll fluorescence

JE Lee, C Frankenberg… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is unclear to what extent seasonal water stress impacts on plant productivity over
Amazonia. Using new Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) satellite …

Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics in savanna vegetation phenology across the North Australian Tropical Transect

X Ma, A Huete, Q Yu, NR Coupe, K Davies… - Remote sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The phenology of a landscape is a key parameter in climate and biogeochemical cycle
models and its correct representation is central to the accurate simulation of carbon, water …

Validation of MODIS 16 global terrestrial evapotranspiration products in various climates and land cover types in Asia

HW Kim, K Hwang, Q Mu, SO Lee, M Choi - KSCE Journal of Civil …, 2012 - Springer
Evapotranspiration (ET), or the sum of water released to the atmosphere from ground
surfaces, intercepts canopy precipitation through evaporation and plant transpiration and is …