Evaluation of spatiotemporal variations of global fractional vegetation cover based on GIMMS NDVI data from 1982 to 2011

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4217-4239

  Wu, Donghai ^a   Wu, Hao ^a   Zhao, Xiang ^a   Zhou, Tao ^a   Tang, Bijian ^a   Zhao, Wenqian ^a   Jia, Kun ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dimidiate pixel model; FVC; GIMMS; Mann Kendall; Sen's slope estimator; Trend

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

FVC; GIMMS; MANN-KENDALL; PIXEL MODELS; SEN'S SLOPE ESTIMATORS; TREND;

PIXELS;

EID: 84901484761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6054217     Document Type: Article

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