A re-examination of perpendicular drought indices

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6037-6044

  Ghulam, Abduwasit ^a   Qin, Qiming ^b   Kusky, Timothy ^a   Li, Zhao Liang ^c,d  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIFIED PERPENDICULAR DROUGHT INDEX (MPDI); NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PERPENDICULAR DROUGHT INDICES (PDI); SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; VEGETATION GROWTH;

DROUGHT;

MODIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 52649174416     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802235811     Document Type: Article

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