A global land cover climatology using MODIS data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1593-1605

  Broxton, Patrick D ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Sulla Menashe, Damien ^b   Troch, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CONFIDENCE SCORE; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL LAND-COVER CHARACTERISTICS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

PIXELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVHRR; CLIMATOLOGY; MODIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84903905601     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0270.1     Document Type: Article

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