Interannual variability and decadal trend of global fractional vegetation cover from 1982 to 2000

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1525-1530

  Zeng, Xubin ^a   Rao, Praveen ^a   DeFries, Ruth S ^b   Hansen, Matthew C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER (FVC); GRASSLANDS; LAND COVER;

METEOROLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NDVI; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0344120346     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2003)042<1525:IVADTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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