Fieldsite

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United States: Arizona: Lewis Springs Sacaton

Latitude: 31.561667
Longitude: -110.140278

Lewis Springs Sacaton Field Site
Lewis Springs Sacaton Field Site

  • Network: Unaffiliated
  • Principal investigator: Travis E. Huxman
  • PI-affiliated institution: University of California, Irvine
  • Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Grasslands
  • Dominant plant functional type: Grass
  • Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
    • Temperature extreme: Heat wave or freeze
  • Flux data collection:
    • Start date: June 2002
    • End date: Unknown
  • Flux methods:
    • Eddy covariance
    • Micrometeorological
  • Optical data collection:
    • Start date: June 2002
    • End date: Unknown
  • Data collection period: Unknown
  • Data scale: Stand
  • Collection methods: Tower
  • Types of data collected: Fluxes, optical data, leaf gas exchange, canopy structure, species composition, hydrological
  • Publications:
    • Qi J, Marsett RC, Moran MS, Goodrich DC, Heilman P, Kerr YH, Dedieu G, Chehbouni A, Zhang XX. Spatial and temporal dynamics of vegetation in the San Pedro River basin area. Agricultural and forest meteorology. 2000 Nov 20;105(1-3):55-68.
    • Cheng YB, Ustin SL, Riaño D, Vanderbilt VC. Water content estimation from hyperspectral images and MODIS indexes in Southeastern Arizona. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2008 Feb 15;112(2):363-74.
    • Yilmaz MT, Hunt Jr ER, Goins LD, Ustin SL, Vanderbilt VC, Jackson TJ. Vegetation water content during SMEX04 from ground data and Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2008 Feb 15;112(2):350-62.
    • Kim HJ. Combined use of vegetation and water indices from remotely-sensed AVIRIS and MODIS data to monitor riparian and semiarid vegetation.