Vegetation response to rainfall as monitored by NOAA-AVHRR

Current Science

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1626-1633

  Chandrasekar, K ^a   Sesha Sai, M V R ^a   Jeyaseelan, A T ^a   Dwivedi, R S ^a   Roy, P S ^a  

^a NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

Author keywords

Monsoon; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Rainfall; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846320068     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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