The use of time-integrated NOAA NDVI data and rainfall to assess landscape degradation in the arid shrubland of Western Australia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-158

  Holm, Alexander McR ^a   Cridland, Shane W ^b   Roderick, Michael L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Environ Rsrc Information Network   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid environments; Landscape degradation; Monitoring; NOAA NDVI; Remote sensing; Resilience

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; RAIN; SAMPLING;

PHYTOMASS;

REMOTE SENSING;

LAND DEGRADATION; MONITORING; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PHYTOMASS; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037447871     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00199-2     Document Type: Article

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