Assessing vegetation variability and trends in north-eastern Brazil using AVHRR and MODIS NDVI time series

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-59

  Schucknecht, Anne ^a   Erasmi, Stefan ^b   Niemeyer, Irmgard ^c   Matschullat, Jörg ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; BFAST; Cerrado; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Precipitation; Time series decomposition

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BFAST; CERRADO; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TIME SERIES DECOMPOSITION;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84875196212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20134603     Document Type: Article

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