Spatial variability of images and the monitoring of changes in the normalized difference vegetation index

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 2187-2195

  Townshend, J R ^a   Justice, C O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; NDVI; VEGETATION;

EID: 0029541338     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169508954550     Document Type: Article

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