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While forest inventories assess the change in forest growth based on repeated individual tree measurements (DBH, height etc.), the MODIS NPP estimates are based on ecophysiological processes such as photosynthesis, respiration and carbon allocation. We obtained repeated national forest inventory data from Austria, calculated a \u201cground-based\u201d NPP estimate and compared the results with \u201cspace-based\u201d MODIS NPP estimates using different daily climate data. The MODIS NPP estimates using local Austrian climate data exhibited better compliance with the forest inventory driven NPP estimates than the MODIS NPP predictions using global climate data sets. Stand density plays a key role in addressing the differences between MODIS driven NPP estimates versus terrestrial driven inventory NPP estimates. After addressing stand density, both results are comparable across different scales. As forest management changes stand density, these findings suggest that management issues are important in understanding the observed discrepancies between MODIS and terrestrial NPP.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70403878","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]],"date-time":"2015-04-07T03:47:46Z","timestamp":1428378466000},"page":"3878-3906","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Comparing MODIS Net Primary Production Estimates with Terrestrial National Forest Inventory Data in Austria"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Mathias","family":"Neumann","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Str. 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"given":"Maosheng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"}]},{"given":"Georg","family":"Kindermann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Hazards and Landscape, Department of Forest Growth and Silviculture, Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Vienna, Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8, A-1130 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"given":"Hubert","family":"Hasenauer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Str. 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D., McCallum, I., Santoro, M., and Schmullius, C. 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