Assessment of global forest change between 1986 and 1993 using satellite-derived terrestrial net primary productivity

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 315-321

  Jang, Christine J ^a   Nishigami, Yasuko ^a   Yanagisawa, Yukio ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global carbon cycle; Global vegetation index; Net primary production; NOAA; Normalized difference vegetation index; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DESTRUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0030427871     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0376892900039175     Document Type: Article

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