Are vegetation indices useful in the Arctic?

Polar Record

Volumn 34, Issue 191, 1998, Pages 333-336

  Rees, W G ^a   Golubeva, E I ^b   Williams, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; NDVI; PLANT COMMUNITY; TUNDRA;

EID: 0031762717     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247400026036     Document Type: Article

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