Characterising and quantifying vegetative drought in East Africa using fuzzy modelling and NDVI data

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-178

  Rulinda, C M ^a   Dilo, A ^b   Bijker, W ^a   Stein, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drought; Fuzzy set theory; Measures; Remote sensing data; Vague spatial objects

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EAST AFRICA;

EID: 83955163640     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.11.016     Document Type: Article

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