Explaining NDVI trends in northern Burkina Faso

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-24

  Rasmussen, Kjeld ^a   Fensholt, Rasmus ^a   Fog, Bjarne ^a   Vang Rasmussen, Laura ^a   Yanogo, Isidore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

greening; land degradation; NDVI; Sahel; spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; GRAZING PRESSURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

BURKINA FASO; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84895517558     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2014.890522     Document Type: Article

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