An improved logistic method for detecting spring vegetation phenology in grasslands from MODIS EVI time-series data

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-20

  Cao, Ruyin ^a   Chen, Jin ^b   Shen, Miaogen ^c   Tang, Yanhong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Green up; Inner Mongolia; Logistic fitting; Precipitation; Start of the growing season

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPRING (SEASON); VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84907853318     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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