Remote sensing of Japanese beech forest decline using an improved Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index (iTVDI)

IForest

Volumn 4, Issue NOVEMBER, 2011, Pages 195-199

  Ishimura, A ^a   Shimizu, Y ^a   Rahimzadeh Bajgiran, P ^a   Omasa, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decline; Forest; Improved Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index (iTVDI); MODIS; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Indexed keywords

FAGUS; FAGUS CRENATA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84861540224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0592-004     Document Type: Article

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