TY - GEN
T1 - The globcarbon initiative
T2 - 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop
AU - Plummer, Stephen
AU - Arino, Olivier
AU - Ranera, Franck
AU - Tansey, Kevin
AU - Leigh, Roland
AU - Chen, Jing
AU - Dedieu, Gerard
AU - Eva, Hugh
AU - Borstlap, Geert
AU - Beusen, Bart
AU - Fierens, Freddy
AU - Heyns, Walter
AU - Benedetti, Riccardo
AU - Lacaze, Roselyne
AU - Garrigues, Sebastien
AU - Quaife, Tristan
AU - De Kauwe, Martin
AU - Quegan, Shaun
AU - Raupach, Michael
AU - Briggs, Peter
AU - Poulter, Ben
AU - Bondeau, Alberte
AU - Rayner, Peter
AU - Schultz, Martin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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, fAPAR, 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.
AB - 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, fAPAR, 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.
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M3 - Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
AN - SCOPUS:77954565112
SN - 9789292212308
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop
Y2 - 22 September 2008 through 26 September 2008
ER -