Combined analysis of land cover change and NDVI trends in the Northern Eurasian grain belt

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-187

  Wright, Christopher K ^a   de Beurs, Kirsten M ^b   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kazakhstan; land cover change; MODIS; NDVI; Northern Eurasian grain belt; Russia; time series analysis; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GRASSLAND; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; USSR;

EID: 84864121685     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-012-0327-x     Document Type: Article

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