Analysis of NDVI trends and their climatic origin in the Sahel 1986-2000

Geocarto International

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 297-310

  Capecchi, Valerio ^a   Crisci, Alfonso ^a   Lorenzo, Genesio ^a   Maselli, Fabio ^a   Vignaroli, Patrizio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; CROPS; LINEAR REGRESSION; VEGETATION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CORRELATION; DATA SET; NDVI; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING; TREND ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 48249121661     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106040801950492     Document Type: Article

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