Detecting change in landscape greenness over large areas: An example for New Mexico, USA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 150, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-162

  Nash, Maliha S ^a   Bradford, David F ^a   Wickham, James D ^a   Wade, Timothy G ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregression model; Climate factors; Landscape; Local factors; NDVI change; New Mexico

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CLIMATE MODELS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PIXELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTOREGRESSION MODELS; CLIMATE FACTORS; LANDSCAPE; LOCAL FACTORS; NDVI CHANGE; NEW MEXICO;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AVHRR; CLIMATE VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; GREENSPACE; NDVI; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION COVER;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901035967     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.023     Document Type: Article

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