Global ecosystem response types derived from the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index and FPAR3g series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4266-4288

  Ivits, Eva ^a   Horion, Stephanie ^b   Fensholt, Rasmus ^b   Cherlet, Michael ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Earth observation; Extended principal component analysis; Vegetation climate anomalies

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EXTENDED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PIXEL-BASED METHODS; REFERENCE CONDITION; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84901483761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6054266     Document Type: Article

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