Vegetation cover changes and their relationship to climate variation in the source region of the Yellow River, China, 1990-2000

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2085-2103

  Guo, W Q ^a   Yang, T B ^a   Dai, J G ^b   Shi, L ^a   Lu, Z Y ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GROWING SEASON PRECIPITATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE DIFFERENCE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POST-CLASSIFICATION COMPARISON;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR);

AVHRR; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GROWING SEASON; NDVI; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 41549152104     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701395229     Document Type: Article

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