Using remote sensing to quantify vegetation change and ecological resilience in a semi-arid system

Land

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 108-130

  Cui, Xia ^a   Gibbes, Cerian ^b   Southworth, Jane ^c   Waylen, Peter ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land cover; Landsat; NDVI; Resilience; Savanna; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905241740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land2020108     Document Type: Article

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