Remote sensing of shrubland drying in the South-East Mediterranean, 1995-2010: Water-use-efficiency-based mapping of biomass change

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2283-2301

  Shoshany, Maxim ^a   Karnibad, Lev ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Desert fringe ecosystems; Remote sensing; Shrubland biomass; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIOMASS; EFFICIENCY; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER RESOURCES;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE STUDIES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; LANDSAT TM IMAGES; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION LEVEL; SHRUBLANDS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84926326656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302283     Document Type: Article

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