Assessment of mediterranean pasture condition using modis normalized difference vegetation index time series

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fava, Francesco ^a   Colombo, Roberto ^b   Bocchi, Stefano ^c   Zucca, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Land degradation; Local net primary productivity scaling; Mediterranean; Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; Pasture condition; Time series

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA HANDLING; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NUMBER THEORY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

LAND DEGRADATION; LOCAL NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY SCALING; MEDITERRANEAN; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PASTURE CONDITIONS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84867653261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.063530     Document Type: Article

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