Divergent Arctic-Boreal vegetation changes between North America and Eurasia over the past 30 years

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2093-2112

  Bi, Jian ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Samanta, Arindam ^b   Zhu, Zaichun ^a   Myneni, Ranga ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Eurasia; GIMMS; NDVI; North America; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CHANGE; EURASIA; GIMMS; NDVI; NORTH AMERICA;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84880336166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052093     Document Type: Article

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