High positive correlation between soil temperature and NDVI from 1982 to 2006 in alpine meadow of the Three-River Source Region on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 528-535

  Xu, Weixin ^a,b,c   Gu, Song ^a,d   Zhao, XinQuan ^a   Xiao, Jianshe ^b   Tang, Yanhong ^e   Fang, Jingyun ^f   Zhang, Juan ^b   Jiang, Sha ^d  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b Institute of Qinghai Meteorological Science Research   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ndvi (normalized differential vegetation index); Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Temperature; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CORRELATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MEADOW; NDVI; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80053267193     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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