Influence of solar zenith angles on observed trends in the NOAA/NASA 8-km Pathfinder normalized difference vegetation index over the African Sahel

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1973-1991

  Lindström, Johan ^a   Eklundh, Lars ^b   Holst, Jan ^a   Holst, Ulla ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); SOLAR ZENITH ANGLES;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ZENITH ANGLE;

AFRICA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33747160157     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500380539     Document Type: Article

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