Assessing vegetation dynamics in the Three-North Shelter Forest region of China using AVHRR NDVI data

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1011-1020

  Duan, Hanchen ^a,b   Yan, Changzhen ^a   Tsunekawa, Atsushi ^c   Song, Xiang ^a   Li, Sen ^a,b   Xie, Jiali ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate factor; Dryland; NDVI; Three North Shelter Forest Programme (TNSFP); Vegetation cover changes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FACTORS; DRYLAND; NDVI; THREE-NORTH SHELTER FOREST PROGRAMME (TNSFP); VEGETATION COVER CHANGES;

ARID REGIONS; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

AVHRR; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; DESERT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAP; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CHINA;

EID: 80053130562     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0919-x     Document Type: Article

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