Six years of LAI patterns from the forest were estimated using a
radiative transfer model with input of above and below canopy measurements of global radiation, while NDVI data sets were retrieved from
composite NDVI time series of various remote sensing sources, namely NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR; 1996,
1997, 1998 and 2000), SPOT VEGETATION (1998–2001), and Terra MODIS (2001)