Investigating temporal relationships between rainfall, soil moisture and MODIS-derived NDVI and EVI for six sites in Africa

34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jamali, S ^a   Seaquist, J W ^a   Ardo, J ^a   Eklundh, L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hydrology; MODIS; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; MAXIMUM CORRELATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HYDROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84879740494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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