Characterizing vegetation cover in global savannas with an annual foliage clumping index derived from the MODIS BRDF product

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2008-2024

  Hill, Michael J ^a   Román, Miguel O ^b   Schaaf, Crystal B ^c   Hutley, Lindsay ^d   Brannstrom, Christian ^e   Etter, Andres ^f   Hanan, Niall P ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^g Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy; Clumping index; Global; Physiognomy; Savanna; Shadow; Woody cover

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLUMPING INDEX; GLOBAL; PHYSIOGNOMY; SAVANNA; SHADOW; WOODY COVER;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; LANDFORMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICS;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLIAGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; LAND COVER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; REFLECTANCE; SAVANNA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79957604093     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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