Increased grass NDVI under contrasting trends of precipitation change over North China during 1982-2011

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 69-77

  Yuan, Xiuliang ^a,b   Li, Longhui ^a   Chen, Xi ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GLOBAL INVENTORIES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; TRENDS OF PRECIPITATIONS;

RADIOMETERS;

CORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GRASS; NDVI; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84922278256     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.1002944     Document Type: Article

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