A spatially explicit land surface phenology data product for science, monitoring and natural resources management applications

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 191-204

  Broich, Mark ^a,b   Huete, Alfredo ^b   Paget, Matt ^c   Ma, Xuanlong ^b   Tulbure, Mirela ^a   Coupe, Natalia Restrepo ^b   Evans, Bradley ^d   Beringer, Jason ^e   Devadas, Rakhesh ^b   Davies, Kevin ^b   Held, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AusCover TERN; Climate variability; MODIS; Remote sensing; Time series

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

AUSCOVER; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; MODIS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND SURFACE; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCE; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84920408049     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.11.017     Document Type: Article

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