Canada: Saskachewan: SSA Old Aspen
Latitude: 53.100000
Longitude: -106.033333
- Network: Fluxnet-Canada
- Principal investigator: Nicholas Coops
- PI-affiliated institution: Oregon State University
- Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Mixed Forests
- Dominant plant functional type: Deciduous Needleleaf trees, Evergreen Broadleaf trees
- Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
- Fire: Wildfire or managed burns
- The Old Aspen (SOA) site was established by natural regeneration after a forest fire in 1919.
- Flux data collection:
- Start date: April 1996
- End date: Ongoing
- Start date: April 1996
- Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance
- Optical data collection:
- Start date: July 2000
- End date: Ongoing
- Start date: July 2000
- Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
- Data scale: Stand
- Collection methods: Tower
- Types of data collected: PAR, PYR, Optical data
- Publications:
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Hilker T, Hall FG, Coops NC, Lyapustin A, Wang Y, Nesic Z, Grant N, Black TA, Wulder MA, Kljun N, Hopkinson C. Remote sensing of photosynthetic light-use efficiency across two forested biomes: Spatial scaling. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2010 Dec 15;114(12):2863-74.
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Hilker T, Gitelson A, Coops NC, Hall FG, Black TA. Tracking plant physiological properties from multi-angular tower-based remote sensing. Oecologia. 2011 Apr 1;165(4):865-76.
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Hall FG, Hilker T, Coops NC. Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: I. Model formulation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2012 Jun 1;121:301-8.
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Hilker T, Hall FG, Tucker CJ, Coops NC, Black TA, Nichol CJ, Sellers PJ, Barr A, Hollinger DY, Munger JW. Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: II Model implementation and validation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2012 Jun 1;121:287-300.
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Flux data repository: ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/fluxnet/fluxnet_canada/data/SK-OldAspen/