Monitoring and modeling spatial and temporal patterns of grassland dynamics using time-series MODIS NDVI with climate and stocking data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 232-244

  Li, Zhe ^a,b   Huffman, Ted ^b   McConkey, Brian ^b   Townley Smith, Lawrence ^b  

^a Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographically Weighted Regression; Grassland; Grazing; Mann Kendall analysis; MODIS

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; MANN-KENDALL; MODIS;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY;

RADIOMETERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; MODIS; NDVI; PASTURE; PRODUCTIVITY; STOCKING DENSITY; TIME SERIES;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 84884150801     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.020     Document Type: Article

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