Analysis of climate and vegetation characteristics along the savanna-desert ecotone in mali using MODIS data

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 424-450

  Rian, Sigrid ^a   Xue, Yongkang ^a   MacDonald, Glen M ^a   Touré, Mahamadou B ^b   Yu, Yifan ^a   De Sales, Fernando ^a   Levine, Paul A ^a   Doumbia, Seydou ^b   Taylor, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE; ECOTONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

MALI;

EID: 76149090487     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.46.4.424     Document Type: Article

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