Spatial pattern of non-stationarity and scale-dependent relationships between NDVI and climatic factors - A case study in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 170-176

  Gao, Yang ^a   Huang, Jiao ^a   Lee, Shuang ^a   Li, Shuangcheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic factor; Geographically weighted regression; NDVI; Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Scale dependence; Spatial non stationarity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; NDVI; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; SCALE-DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL NON-STATIONARITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862826874     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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