Satellite monitoring of vegetation dynamics: Sensitivity enhancement by the wide dynamic range vegetation index

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Vina, Andrés ^a   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^a   Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CROPLAND; INFRARED REFLECTANCE; SPARSE VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

GEOPHYSICS;

AVHRR; MONITORING SYSTEM; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 2542449956     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019034     Document Type: Article

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