The influence of temperature and precipitation climate regimes on vegetation dynamics in the US Great Plains: A satellite bioclimatology case study

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4947-4966

  Tan, S Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

CLIMATE REGIONALIZATION SCHEME; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SATELLITE BIOCLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41449094488     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701264268     Document Type: Article

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