Testing a MODIS Global Disturbance Index across North America

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2103-2117

  Mildrexler, David J ^a   Zhao, Maosheng ^a   Running, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST); Ecosystem disturbance; Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI); Hurricane; Range of natural variability; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AQUA/MODIS LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE (LST); ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX (EVI); RANGE OF NATURAL VARIABILITY; WILDFIRE;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; HURRICANES; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION;

VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HURRICANE; MODIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TESTING METHOD; TRACE GAS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETABLE; VEGETATION INDEX; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67849094094     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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