Environmental drivers of NDVI-based vegetation phenology in Central Asia

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-246

  Kariyeva, Jahan ^a   van Leeuwen, Willem J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central asia; Climate; Modeling; Phenology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ASIA; CLIMATE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PHENOLOGY; REGIONAL LANDSCAPES; SOIL CARBON; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION RESPONSE; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

BIOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051928720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3020203     Document Type: Article

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