Assessment of relationships between precipitation and satellite derived vegetation condition within South Australia

Australian Geographical Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 180-195

  Nightingale, Joanne M ^a   Phinn, Stuart R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

AVHRR NDVI; Precipitation; Rangelands management; South Australia; Spatial analysis; Time series correlation; Vegetation formations

Indexed keywords

NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0042267259     PISSN: 00049190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8470.00204     Document Type: Article

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