An Environmental Normal of Vegetation Vigour for the Northern Great Plains

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 292-302

  Piwowar, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AVHRR; climate change; mixed grass prairie; multi temporal analysis; NDVI

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; GROWING SEASON; MIXED-GRASS PRAIRIE; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS; PRECIPITATION DATA; STANDARD DEVIATION; STUDY AREAS; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATIVE COVER; WEATHER PATTERNS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

VEGETATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PHENOLOGY; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE SENSOR; VEGETATION COVER;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 80052315748     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2049988     Document Type: Article

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