Analysis of vegetation behavior in a North African semi-arid region, Using SPOT-VEGETATION NDVI data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2568-2590

  Amri, Rim ^a,b   Zribi, Mehrez ^a   Lili Chabaane, Zohra ^b   Duchemin, Benoit ^a   Gruhier, Claire ^a   Chehbouni, Abdelghani ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Drought; NDVI index; Persistence; Spot vegetation; Vegetation; Vegetation drought index

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY INDEXES; DROUGHT INDICES; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GAIN INSIGHT; MULTI-TEMPORAL SERIES; NDVI DATA; NDVI INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; PERSISTENCE; SATELLITE DATA; SEMI ARID; SEMI-ARID REGION; SPOT-VEGETATION; STABILITY/INSTABILITY; TUNISIA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DROUGHT INDEX; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION STRESS;

AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; DROUGHT; DYNAMICS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84856693444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3122568     Document Type: Article

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