Comparison of remotely sensed and meteorological data-derived drought indices in mid-eastern China

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1755-1779

  Zhou, Lei ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Wu, Jianjun ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Lü, Aifeng ^b   Wu, Zhitao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CORRELATION AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LOGARITHMIC RELATIONSHIP; METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; RELATIVE AIR HUMIDITIES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHINA;

EID: 84863239584     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.600349     Document Type: Article

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