Evaluation of earth observation based long term vegetation trends - Intercomparing NDVI time series trend analysis consistency of Sahel from AVHRR GIMMS, Terra MODIS and SPOT VGT data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1886-1898

  Fensholt, Rasmus ^a   Rasmussen, Kjeld ^a   Nielsen, Thomas Theis ^b   Mbow, Cheikh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement   (Senegal)

Author keywords

AVHRR GIMMS; NDVI; Sahel; SPOT VGT; Terra MODIS; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

AVHRR GIMMS; NDVI; SAHEL; SPOT VGT; TERRA MODIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARID REGIONS; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

AVHRR; EOS; MODIS; NDVI; SPOT; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

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

EID: 67651121693     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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