Urbanization diversifies land surface phenology in arid environments: Interactions among vegetation, climatic variation, and land use pattern in the Phoenix metropolitan region, USA

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 149-159

  Buyantuyev, Alexander ^a,b   Wu, Jianguo ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Land surface phenology; MODIS NDVI; Remote sensing; Sonoran desert; Urban rural gradient; Vegetation phenology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; MODIS NDVI; SONORAN DESERT; URBAN-RURAL GRADIENTS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN ZONE; SENESCENCE; TIME SERIES; URBAN-RURAL MIGRATION; URBANIZATION;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857442785     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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