Limits to detectability of land degradation by trend analysis of vegetation index data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 125, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-22

  Wessels, K J ^a,b   van den Bergh, F ^a   Scholes, R J ^c  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Change detection; Desertification; Land degradation; NDVI; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CHANGE DETECTION; DESERTIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; NDVI; TREND ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DEGRADATION;

AVHRR; DATA SET; DESERTIFICATION; DETECTION METHOD; LAND DEGRADATION; NDVI; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84864117984     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.06.022     Document Type: Article

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