Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER
Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER
Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER
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Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically<br />
Active Radiation (FAPAR)<br />
I ⇓<br />
TOC<br />
I ⇑<br />
TOC<br />
canopy<br />
I ⇑<br />
S<br />
I ⇓<br />
S<br />
soil<br />
FAPAR = [(I ⇓<br />
TOC<br />
+I ⇑S )–(I ⇑<br />
TOC<br />
+I ⇓S )] / I ⇓<br />
TOC<br />
Monitoring this bio-geophysical variable in time provides important<br />
information on the productivity of the vegetation and permits us to estimate,<br />
for example, the effectiveness of plants to assimilate atmospheric carbon<br />
dioxide.<br />
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