Can I read Assessment of the MODIS LAI product for Australian ecosystems on EtoBox?

Assessment of the MODIS LAI product for Australian ecosystems by Michael J. Hill; Udaya Senarath; Alex Lee; Melanie Zeppel; Joanne M. Nightingale; Richard (Dick) J. Williams; Tim R. McVicar is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Assessment of the MODIS LAI product for Australian ecosystems about?

The leaf area index (LAI) product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is important for monitoring and modelling global change and terrestrial dynamics at many scales. The algorithm relies on spectral reflectances and a six biome land cover classification. Evaluation of the specific behaviour and performance of the product for regions of the globe such as Australia are needed to assist with product refinement and validation. We made an assessment of Collection 4 of the MODIS LAI product using four approaches: (a) assessment against a continental scale Structural Classification of Australian Vegetation (SCAV); (b) assessment against a continental scale land use classification (LUC); (c) assessment against historical field-based measurement of LAI collected prior to the Terra Mission; and (d) direct comparison of MODIS LAI with coincident field measurements of LAI, mostly from hemispherical photography. The MODIS LAI product produced a wide variety of geographically and structurally specific temporal response profiles between different classes and even for sub-groups within classes of the SCAV. Historical and concurrent field measurements indicated that MODI

Who reads Assessment of the MODIS LAI product for Australian ecosystems?

Author

Michael J. Hill; Udaya Senarath; Alex Lee; Melanie Zeppel; Joanne M. Nightingale; Richard (Dick) J. Williams; Tim R. McVicar

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0034-4257)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)