Monitoring land degradation risk using ASTER data: The non-evaporative fraction as an indicator of ecosystem function

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3720-3736

  García, Mónica ^a   Oyonarte, Cecilio ^b   Villagarcía, Luis ^c   Contreras, Sergio ^d   Domingo, Francisco ^a,b   Puigdefábregas, Juan ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Desertification; Disturbance; Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Remote sensing; Semiarid; Surface energy balance

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; REUSABILITY; RISK PERCEPTION; SULFATE MINERALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; VEGETATION;

ANCILLARY DATA; ASTER DATA; ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION (EF); INPUT DATA; LAND DEGRADATION; LARGE REGIONS; REGIONAL SCALES; SEMI ARID AREAS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX (SHF); SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE (SEB); SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WATER USES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 48349089902     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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