Detecting climate change effects on forest ecosystems in Southwestern Romania using Landsat TM NDVI data

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 815-832

  Pravalie, Remus ^a   Sîrodoev, Igor ^b   Peptenatu, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Moldova)

Author keywords

change detection analysis; forest ecosystems; NDVI index; thermal stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904169347     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-014-1122-2     Document Type: Article

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