Vegetation responses to precipitation and temperature: A spatiotemporal Analysis of ecoregions in the Colorado River Basin

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5665-5687

  Cañón, Julio ^a,b,c   Domínguez, Francina ^a,b   Valdes, Juan B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SAHRA Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ECOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; MULTICHANNEL SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

VEGETATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; ECOREGION; MAPPING; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VEGETATION;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 80053103178     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.507259     Document Type: Article

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