Alpine grassland phenology as seen in AVHRR, VEGETATION, and MODIS NDVI time series - A comparison with in situ measurements

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2833-2853

  Fontana, Fabio ^a   Rixen, Christian ^b   Jonas, Tobias ^b   Aberegg, Gabriel ^a   Wunderle, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Grassland; NDVI; Phenology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT ALGORITHMS; AVHRR; GRASSLAND; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES; PHENOLOGY; SAVITZKY GOLAY FILTERING; SAVITZKY-GOLAY FILTER;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BIOLOGY; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

VEGETATION;

EID: 43049143905     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8042833     Document Type: Article

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