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Separating of Overstory and Understory Leaf Area Indices for Global Needleleaf and Deciduous Broadleaf Forests by Fusion of MODIS and MISR Data
Abstract
Forest overstory and understory layers differ in carbon and water cycle regimes, phenology, as well as ecosystem functions. Separate retrievals of Leaf Area Index (LAI) for these two layers would help to improve modeling forest biogeochemical cycles and evaluating forest ecosystem functions. In this paper, overstory and understory LAI values were estimated separately for global needleleaf and deciduous broadleaf forests by fusing MISR and MODIS …
Authors
Liu Y; Liu R; Pisek J; Chen J
Pagination
pp. 1-32
DOI
10.5194/bg-2016-448
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