Drought monitoring and corn yield estimation in southern Africa from AVHRR data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-232

  Unganai, Leonard S ^a   Kogan, Felix N ^b  

^a Drought Monitoring Centre   (Zimbabwe)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; DROUGHT; IMAGE SENSORS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR) SENSORS; TEMPERATURE CONDITION INDEX (TCI); VEGETATION CONDITION INDEX (VCI);

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; CORN; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 0032010538     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00132-6     Document Type: Article

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