Analysis of cerrado physiognomies and conversion in the MODIS seasonal-temporal domain

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Ratana, Piyachat ^a   Huete, Alfredo R ^a   Ferreira, Laerte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; MODIS; Phenology; Remote sensing; Temporal domain

Indexed keywords

CERRADO; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; MODIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHENOLOGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; TEMPORAL DOMAIN;

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

EID: 33847036818     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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