Determining land surface fractional cover from NDVI and rainfall time series for a savanna ecosystem

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 376-388

  Scanlon, Todd M ^a   Albertson, John D ^a,b   Caylor, Kelly K ^a   Williams, Chris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; RAIN; SOILS; VEGETATION;

NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI);

REMOTE SENSING;

LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; NDVI; RAINFALL; SAVANNA; TIME SERIES;

POACEAE;

EID: 0036787088     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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