Interpretation of variations in MODIS-measured greenness levels of Amazon forests during 2000 to 2009

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Samanta, Arindam ^a,b   Ganguly, Sangram ^c   Vermote, Eric ^d   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^c   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; greenness; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862146708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024018     Document Type: Article

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