The globcarbon initiative: Global biophysical products for global terrestrial carbon studies

Stephen Plummer; Olivier Arino; Franck Ranera; Kevin Tansey; Roland Leigh; Jing Chen; Gerard Dedieu; Hugh Eva; Geert Borstlap; Bart Beusen; Freddy Fierens; Walter Heyns; Riccardo Benedetti; Roselyne Lacaze; Sebastien Garrigues; Tristan Quaife; Martin De Kauwe; Shaun Quegan; Michael Raupach; Peter Briggs; Ben Poulter; Alberte Bondeau; Peter Rayner; Martin Schultz

The globcarbon initiative: Global biophysical products for global terrestrial carbon studies

Stephen Plummer^*, Olivier Arino, Franck Ranera, Kevin Tansey, Roland Leigh, Jing Chen, Gerard Dedieu, Hugh Eva, Geert Borstlap, Bart Beusen, Freddy Fierens, Walter Heyns, Riccardo Benedetti, Roselyne Lacaze, Sebastien Garrigues, Tristan Quaife, Martin De Kauwe, Shaun Quegan, Michael Raupach, Peter BriggsBen Poulter, Alberte Bondeau, Peter Rayner, Martin Schultz

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Understanding the spatial and temporal variation in carbon fluxes is essential to constrain models that predict climate change. However, our current knowledge of spatial and temporal patterns is uncertain, particularly over land. The European Space Agency (ESA) GLOBCARBON project was initiated to generate fully calibrated estimates of at-land products quasi-independent of the original Earth Observation source for use in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, a central component of the Earth System Science Partnership's Global Carbon Project. The service features global estimates of: burned area, f_APAR, LAI and vegetation growth cycle for six complete years, from 1998 to 2007 when overlap exists between ESA Earth Observation sensors (ATSR-2, AATSR and MERIS) and the French SPOT VEGETATION sensor. This paper outlines the GLOBCARBON project, the Burned area and Leaf Area Index products, their validation and inter-comparison with equivalents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop
Edition	666 SP
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop - Frascati, Italy Duration: 22 Sep 2008 → 26 Sep 2008

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Name	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Number	666 SP
ISSN (Print)	0379-6566

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Conference	2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Frascati
Period	22/09/08 → 26/09/08

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Plummer, S., Arino, O., Ranera, F., Tansey, K., Leigh, R., Chen, J., Dedieu, G., Eva, H., Borstlap, G., Beusen, B., Fierens, F., Heyns, W., Benedetti, R., Lacaze, R., Garrigues, S., Quaife, T., De Kauwe, M., Quegan, S., Raupach, M., ... Schultz, M. (2008). The globcarbon initiative: Global biophysical products for global terrestrial carbon studies. In Proceedings of the 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop (666 SP ed.). (European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP; No. 666 SP).

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Plummer, S, Arino, O, Ranera, F, Tansey, K, Leigh, R, Chen, J, Dedieu, G, Eva, H, Borstlap, G, Beusen, B, Fierens, F, Heyns, W, Benedetti, R, Lacaze, R, Garrigues, S, Quaife, T, De Kauwe, M, Quegan, S, Raupach, M, Briggs, P, Poulter, B, Bondeau, A, Rayner, P & Schultz, M 2008, The globcarbon initiative: Global biophysical products for global terrestrial carbon studies. in Proceedings of the 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop. 666 SP edn, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 666 SP, 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop, Frascati, Italy, 22/09/08.

The globcarbon initiative : Global biophysical products for global terrestrial carbon studies. / Plummer, Stephen; Arino, Olivier; Ranera, Franck et al.

Proceedings of the 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop. 666 SP. ed. 2008. (European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP; No. 666 SP).

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