Combined spatial and temporal effects of environmental controls on long-term monthly NDVI in the Southern Africa Savanna

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6513-6538

  Campo Bescós, Miguel A ^a,b   Muñoz Carpena, Rafael ^a   Southworth, Jane ^c   Zhu, Likai ^c   Waylen, Peter R ^c   Bunting, Erin ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dynamic factor analysis; Land cover change; Mean annual precipitation; NDVI; Potential evapotranspiration; Soil moisture; Temperature; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC FACTOR ANALYSIS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NDVI; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84884803878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5126513     Document Type: Article

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