Use of NDVI and land surface temperature for drought assessment: Merits and limitations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 618-633

  Karnieli, Arnon ^a   Agam, Nurit ^b   Pinker, Rachel T ^c   Anderson, Martha ^b   Imhoff, Marc L ^d   Gutman, Garik G ^e   Panov, Natalya ^a   Goldberg, Alexander ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; DATA SETS; DROUGHT MONITORING; GROWING SEASON; HIGHER LATITUDES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LIMITING FACTORS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NEGATIVE SLOPE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTH AMERICAN; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRIMARY FACTORS; SPACE-BORNE; STUDY AREAS; VEGETATION GROWTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SUN; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

VEGETATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AVHRR; CORRELATION; DROUGHT; MONITORING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NDVI; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77952262183     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2900.1     Document Type: Article

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