Monitoring of desertification in central Asia and western China using long term NOAA-AVHRR NDVI time-series data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2278-2280

  Liu, A X ^a   Liu, Z J ^a   Wang, C Y ^a   Niu, Z ^a   Yan, D M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Desertification; Monitoring; NDVI; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; DESERTIFICATION;

VEGETATION;

EID: 0242626589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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