PROVE Land Cover and Leaf Area of Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 1997

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Field measurement of shrubland ecological properties is important for both site monitoring and validation of remote-sensing information. During the NASA Earth Observing System Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE) at the Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, on May 20-30, 1997, we calculated plot-level plant area index, leaf area index, total fractional cover, and green fractional cover with data from four instruments: (1) a Dycam Agricultural Digital Camera (ADC), (2) a LI-COR LAI-2000 plant canopy analyzer, (3) a Decagon sunfleck ceptometer, and (4) a laser altimeter. Estimates from the LAI-2000 and ceptometer were very similar (plant area index 0.3, leaf area index 0.22, total fractional cover 0.19, green fractional cover 0.14), but the ADC produced values 5 to 10% higher. Laser altimeter values, depending on the height cutoff used to establish total fractional cover, were either higher or lower than the other instruments' values: a 10-cm cutoff produced values approximately 80% higher, whereas a 20-cm cutoff produced values approximately 30% lower.

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Name Format Description Link
33 prove_landcover_lai_guide.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/prove/jornada_landcover_lai/comp/prove_landcover_lai_guide.pdf
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2FPROVE%2Fguides%2Fprove_landcover_lai_guide.html
5 https://doi.org%2F10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F665
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fprotected%2Fbundle%2Fjornada_landcover_lai_665.zip
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fprove%2Fjornada_landcover_lai%2Fcomp%2FPROVE_landcover_lai_meas_descriptions.pdf
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fprove%2Fjornada_landcover_lai%2Fcomp%2Fprove_landcover_lai_guide.pdf
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fprove%2Fjornada_landcover_lai%2Fcomp%2FLAI_guide.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Djornada_landcover_lai_665%26ac%3Dtrue
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2Fgraphics%2Fbrowse%2Fproject%2Fsquare%2Fprove_logo_square.png
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=RADAMBrasil_941&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/941
57 RADAMBrasil_941.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/RADAMBrasil_941.zip
34 lba_logo_square.png https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/lba_logo_square.png
33 Soil_Profiles_of_Amazonia.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/lba/carbon_dynamics/RADAMBrasil/comp/Soil_Profiles_of_Amazonia.pdf
33 Pre_LBA_RADAMBrasil.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/lba/carbon_dynamics/RADAMBrasil/comp/Pre_LBA_RADAMBrasil.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=jornada_landcover_lai_665&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/665
57 jornada_landcover_lai_665.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/jornada_landcover_lai_665.zip
33 PROVE_landcover_lai_meas_descriptions.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/prove/jornada_landcover_lai/comp/PROVE_landcover_lai_meas_descriptions.pdf
34 prove_logo_square.png https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/prove_logo_square.png
33 LAI_guide.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/prove/jornada_landcover_lai/comp/LAI_guide.pdf
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2804794793-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115

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  • earth-science-vegetation-biosphere-canopy-characteristics
  • earth-science-land-use-land-cover-land-surface-land-use-land-cover-classification-vegetation-in
  • earth-science-land-use-land-cover-land-surface-land-use-land-cover-classification
  • earth-science-visible-wavelengths-spectral-engineering-visible-imagery

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