GAC NDVI images: Relationship to rainfall and potential evaporation in the grazing lands of The Gourma (northern Sahel) and in the croplands of the Niger-Nigeria border (southern Sahel)

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 261-280

  Milich, L ^a   Weiss, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWING SEASON; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION INDEX;

AFRICA; SAHEL;

EID: 0034688206     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210821     Document Type: Article

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