Contents
1 Indices of Vegetation Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Alfredo Huete, Tomoaki Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka,
Piyachat Ratana and Mark Broich
2 Green Leaf Area and Fraction of Photosynthetically
Active Radiation Absorbed by Vegetation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Sangram Ganguly, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Frederic Baret,
Jian Bi, Marie Weiss, Gong Zhang, Cristina Milesi,
Hirofumi Hashimoto, Arindam Samanta, Aleixandre Verger,
Kumaresh Singh and Ranga B. Myneni
3 Remote Sensing of Forest Biomass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Xiaoyang Zhang and Wenge Ni-meister
4 Land Surface Phenology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jonathan M. Hanes, Liang Liang and Jeffrey T. Morisette
5 Gross Primary Production of Terrestrial Vegetation . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Xiangming Xiao, Cui Jin and Jinwei Dong
6 Assessing Net Ecosystem Exchange of Carbon Dioxide
Between the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Atmosphere
Using Fluxnet Observations and Remote Sensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Jingfeng Xiao
7 Oceanic Chlorophyll-a Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Chuanmin Hu and Janet Campbell
8 Oceanic Net Primary Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Toby K. Westberry and Michael J. Behrenfeld
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