Technical Note: Comparing and ranking soil drought indices performance over Europe, through remote-sensing of vegetation

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 271-277

  Peled, E ^a   Dutra, E ^b   Viterbo, P ^b,c   Angert, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 77149158778     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-271-2010     Document Type: Article

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