Focus

Spain: Aguamarga

Latitude: 36.9406
Longitude: -2.0329

Network: CarboEurope IP
Principal investigator: Cecilio Oyonarte
PI-affiliated institution: Universidad de AlmerÍa
Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Grasslands
Dominant plant functional type: Grass
Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
- Grazing: Herbivory or browsing by mammals, managed or wild
- Temperature extreme: Heat wave or freeze
Flux data collection:
- Start date: June 2006
- End date: Ongoing
Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance, gradients, chambers,
Optical data collection:
- Start date: March 2013
- End date: November 2013
Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method; Intermittent: Variable collected intermittently with the reported method
Data scale: Canopy, Stand
Collection methods: Manual
Types of data collected: NDVI (643.5/856.0), PRI (529.1/569/4), Relative humidity (At 2, 5, 9 and 12 m height), Spectral reflectance (ASD 350-1800 nm), Canopy temperature (Destructive biomass sampling), Leaf temperature (Raytek and Apogee sensors)
Publications

- Petropoulos GP, Ireland G, Griffiths H, Islam T, Kalivas D, Anagnostopoulos V, Hodges C, Srivastava PK. Spatiotemporal estimates of surface Soil Moisture from space using the Ts/VI feature space. InSatellite Soil Moisture Retrieval 2016 Jan 1 (pp. 91-108). Elsevier.
- Gilabert MA, Moreno A, Maselli F, Martínez B, Chiesi M, Sánchez-Ruiz S, García-Haro FJ, Pérez-Hoyos A, Campos-Taberner M, Pérez-Priego O, Serrano-Ortiz P. Daily GPP estimates in Mediterranean ecosystems by combining remote sensing and meteorological data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 2015 Apr 1;102:184-97.