What makes the satellite-based EVI–GPP relationship unclear in a deciduous broad-leaved forest?

Ecological Research - Tập 25 - Trang 359-365 - 2009
Shin Nagai1, Nobuko Saigusa2, Hiroyuki Muraoka3, Kenlo Nishida Nasahara4
1Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
2National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
3River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
4Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Tóm tắt

Recent studies have suggested that gross primary production (GPP) of terrestrial vegetation can be estimated directly with the satellite-based Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). However, the reported EVI–GPP relationships showed wide variability, with the regression functions showing widely scattered data. In the present study, we examined the possible reasons for this variability in the EVI–GPP relationship using daily EVI values from satellite and field measurements and daily flux-based GPP in a cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest in Japan. The variability appears to be caused by noise due to cloud contamination in the satellite data as well as the different seasonality of EVI and GPP, especially during the leaf-expansion period. Our findings indicate that improvement of cloud screening and consideration of the leaf-expansion period are critical when applying the EVI–GPP relationship.

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