Natural vegetation covers as indicators of the soil water content in a semiarid mountainous watershed

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 524-535

  Gómez Giráldez, Pedro J ^a   Aguilar, Cristina ^b   Polo, María José ^c  

^a Agricultural and Fishing Research and Training Institute   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hydrological modeling; Landsat TM; NDVI; Soil moisture; Water stress; WiMMed

Indexed keywords

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSAT-TM; NDVI; WATER STRESS; WIMMED;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; BIOINDICATOR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MOUNTAIN REGION; NDVI; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; VEGETATION COVER; WATER CONTENT; WATERSHED;

SPAIN;

EID: 84905855669     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.06.024     Document Type: Article

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