Dynamics of mountain semi-natural grassland meadows inferred from SPOT-VEGETATION and field spectroradiometer data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4334-4355

  Poças, Isabel ^a   Cunha, Mário ^a   Pereira, Luis S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DYNAMICS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLANDS; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIATION; FODDER; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEADOW; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NDVI; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84857025487     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.645084     Document Type: Article

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