NDVI response to rainfall in different ecological zones in Jordan

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3897-3912

  Al Bakri, J T ^a   Suleiman, A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGICAL ZONES; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RAINFALL DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 5444271064     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001654428     Document Type: Article

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