Assessing uncertainties of in situ FAPAR measurements across different forest ecosystems : implications for the validation of satellite derived FAPAR products

• Main Author: Putzenlechner, Birgitta
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2020
• Subjects: FAPAR, forest, in situ, uncertainty, remote sensing; 500; 550; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Canada; The Sentinel; Peace River
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/edoc.25790; https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/25790

Carbon balances are important for understanding global climate change. Assessing such balances on a local scale depends on accurate measurements of material flows to calculate the productivity of the ecosystem. The productivity of the Earth's biosphere, in turn, depends on the ability of plants...