Spatial patterns of the canopy stress during 2005 drought in Amazonia

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2294-2297

  Anderson, Liana O ^a   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Aragão, Luiz E O C ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Drought; MODIS; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL PATTERNS; VEGETATION INDICES;

DATA MINING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 80051735510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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