Optimal use of land surface temperature data to detect changes in tropical forest cover

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Van Leeuwen, Thijs T ^a,b   Frank, Andrew J ^c   Jin, Yufang ^a   Smyth, Padhraic ^c   Goulden, Michael L ^a   Van Der Werf, Guido R ^b   Randerson, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; MODIS; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

EID: 79955059318     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001488     Document Type: Article

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