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A Research of Net Primary Productivity Model of Grassland Based On MODIS Data in the LoessPlateau of China WEI Li，ZHAOJun，PANJing-hu，LI Xia Abstract: Basedonlight-use efficiency model, a net primary productivity model for grasslandusing EOS/MODIS data was proposed. Thismodel considered the influences of temperature and the difference of surfacewater vapor pressure. The NPP of grassland in 2003 was calculated using MODIS data with 1km1km resolution from April to November in 2003, themulti year annual averagevalueof monthly solar radiation of 73 meteorological stations in the LoessPlateau and other relevant datasets. The result showed that the estimation of maximum net primary productivity of the entire LoessPlateau is 516gCyr-1 while the minimum is 1gCyr-1. The spatial pattern of NPP in LoessPlateau indicated that high values of NPP distributed in the south and west corners, then rapidly decreased from the southeast and northwest corners into the center inland regions. The trend is closely related with the differences of hydro-thermal conditions and the law of zonal differentiation of grassland. Keywords: Net primary productivity; CASAModel; MODISdate; LoessPlateau 1 Introduction In recent years, due to the double effects of natural and human factors, resulting in a wide range of serious deterioration of grassland on Loess Plateau, the decline in output, the existing 95.1% may have different degrees of degradation and utilization of natural grassland[1]. Grassland ecological environment is deteriorating, productivity decreased obviously, has become a huge obstacle to the sustainable development of society, economy, ecology. Grassland degradation monitoring, rational utilization and protection of grassland resources have been crunch time precious. The net primary productivity (Net Primary Pro-ductivity, NPP) refers to a number of organic matter accumulation in grassland per unit time per unit area, the total organic matter, is produced by photosynthesis (Gro