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Remote Sensing Phenology

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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

Part of the book series: Tasks for Vegetation Science ((TAVS,volume 39))

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Remote sensing phenology is able to consistently generate estimates of the start, peak, duration, and end of the growing season over large areas. The elements of phenology that can be estimated from remote sensing are necessarily more coarse than direct observations of individual plant phenology, such as bud burst or first leaf, but are rather summaries of the constituents of pixels and do not normally represent any one vegetation type.

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Reed, B.C., White, M., Brown, J.F. (2003). Remote Sensing Phenology. In: Schwartz, M.D. (eds) Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. Tasks for Vegetation Science, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0632-3_23

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