Browsing College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UW-Madison by Subject "Boreal forest"

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Bryophyte cover estimation in a boreal black spruce forest using airborne lidar and multispectral sensors

Gower, Stith T.; Ahl, Douglas E.; Peckham, Scott D. (Elsevier, 2009-03)

Bryophytes are the dominant ground cover vegetation layer in many boreal forests and in some of these forests the net primary production of bryophytes exceeds the overstory. Therefore it is necessary to quantify their ...
Scaling Gross Primary Production (GPP) over boreal and deciduous forest landscapes in support of MODIS GPP product validation

Munger, J. William; Dunn, Allison L.; Urbanski, Shawn; Wofsy, Steven C.; Running, Steven W.; Zhao, Maosheng; Gower, Stith T.; Cohen, Warren B.; Ritts, William D.; Turner, David P. (Elsevier, 2003-06-18)

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Radiometer (MODIS) is the primary instrument in the NASA Earth Observing System for monitoring the seasonality of global terrestrial vegetation. Estimates of 8-day mean daily gross primary ...