Structural changes of desertified and managed shrubland landscapes in response to drought: Spectral, spatial and temporal analyses

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8134-8164

  Paz Kagan, Tarin ^a   Panov, Natalya ^a   Shachak, Moshe ^a   Zaady, Eli ^b   Karnieli, Arnon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crust index; Landscape cover; Normalized difference vegetation index; Remote sensing; Runoff harvesting system; Source sink systems

Indexed keywords

CRUST INDEX; LANDSCAPE COVER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RUNOFF-HARVESTING SYSTEM; SOURCE-SINK SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84907474257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098134     Document Type: Article

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