Daily MODIS products for analyzing early season vegetation dynamics across the North Slope of Alaska

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1251-1262

  Narasimhan, Raghuram ^a   Stow, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic tundra; Daily NDVI; MODIS; North Slope of Alaska; Phenology; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC TUNDRA; CHRONOSEQUENCES; CLOUD COVER; COASTAL PLAIN; DATA SETS; DURING PHASE; GROWING SEASON; MAXIMUM VALUES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NDVI DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA; PHASE I; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RAPID CHANGES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SNOWMELT; SPACE AND TIME; TRAJECTORY APPROACH; TUNDRA VEGETATION; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY; WARMING CLIMATE;

FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETERS; TRAJECTORIES;

VEGETATION;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD COVER; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949488879     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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