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Monitoring cropland daily carbon dioxide exchange at field scales with Sentinel-2 satellite imagery
Pia Gottschalk
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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Geodesy, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Aram Kalhori
Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Geodesy, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Geodesy, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
present address: BASF Digital Farming GmbH, 50678 Cologne, Germany
Christian Wille
Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Geodesy, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Torsten Sachs
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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Geodesy, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Geoecology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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To improve the accuracy of spatial carbon exchange estimates, we evaluated simple linear models for net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and gross primary productivity (GPP) and how they can be used to upscale the CO2 exchange of agricultural fields. The models are solely driven by Sentinel-2-derived vegetation indices (VIs). Evaluations show that different VIs have variable power to estimate NEE and GPP of crops in different years. The overall performance is as good as results from complex crop models.
To improve the accuracy of spatial carbon exchange estimates, we evaluated simple linear models...
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