Phenological characterization of desert sky island vegetation communities with remotely sensed and climate time series data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 388-415

  van Leeuwen, Willem J D ^a   Davison, Jennifer E ^a   Casady, Grant M ^a   Marsh, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; MODIS; NDVI; Phenology; Remote sensing; Time series; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DESERT SCRUBS; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTERANNUAL; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; SONORAN DESERT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TIME-SERIES DATA; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION TYPE;

BIOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80051730957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2020388     Document Type: Article

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