Response of seasonal vegetation development to climatic variations in eastern central Asia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-54

  Yu, Fangfang ^a   Price, Kevin P ^a   Ellis, James ^b   Shi, Peijun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Mongolian steppe; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

VEGETATION DEVELOPMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; STEPPE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

(CENTRAL); ASIA; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 0142027922     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00144-5     Document Type: Article

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