Investigation on the patterns of global vegetation change using a satellite-sensed vegetation index

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1530-1548

  Li, Ainong ^a   Deng, Wei ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^b   Huang, Chengquan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

EOF; Global vegetation change; NDVI; Remote sensing; Spatio temporal pattern

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EOF; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL INVENTORIES; GLOBAL SCALE; GLOBAL VEGETATION CHANGE; GROWTH SEASON; HIGH LATITUDES; MAPPING STUDIES; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; VEGETATION ACTIVITY; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84860390711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2061530     Document Type: Article

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