Effects of atmospheric variation on AVHRR NDVI data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 392-397

  Nagol, Jyoteshwar R ^a   Vermote, Eric F ^a   Prince, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; AERONET; AVHRR; Error; GIMMS; Global change; GVI; LTDR; NDVI; PAL; Precision; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERICS; ERROR CORRECTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE SENSORS;

ACCURACY; AERONET; AVHRR; GIMMS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GVI; LTDR; NDVI; PAL; PRECISION; UNCERTAINTY;

VEGETATION;

AVHRR; COMPOSTING; DATA SET; GLOBAL CHANGE; NDVI; PRECISION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

EID: 58149138846     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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