Landflux.org is an effort to provide spatially and temporally continuous estimates of carbon, water and energy exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere by integrating satellite remote sensing observations with ground-based micrometeorological tower flux measurements and process-based ecophysiological studies.
Remote Sensing Satellite remote sensing observations by the AVHRR and MODIS sensors together provide 25+ years of data on canopy light absorptance, vegetation phenology and land surface temperature at a nominal spatial resolution of 1 km.
Micrometeorology Ecosystem scale measurements of net CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration from the FLUXNET global network of eddy covariance towers provide data to test and validate biophysical remote sensing models in a wide range of ecosystems and environments.
Ecophysiology Ecophysiological measurements on leaves and soil provide data for parameterizing biophysical models that relate carbon, water and energy exchanges during photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration and evaporation to remote sensing observations and environmental conditions.
