Characteristics of drought indices and rainfall in Lake Chad Basin

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 7945-7961

  Okonkwo, Churchill ^a   Demoz, Belay ^a   Onyeukwu, Kyrian ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FPM Geophysical and UXO Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; EARTH (PLANET); INFORMATION USE; LAKES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOMETERS; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX IMAGE; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD PRECIPITATION INDICES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

RAIN;

AUTOCORRELATION; BASIN; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; EOS; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRMM; VEGETATION INDEX;

LAKE CHAD;

EID: 84896309958     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.827813     Document Type: Article

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