Land degradation assessment using residual trend analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, soil moisture and rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5471-5494

  Ibrahim, Yahaya Z ^a   Balzter, Heiko ^a   Kaduk, Jörg ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Land degradation; NDVI3g; Rainfall; RESTREND; Soil moisture; Sub Saharan West Africa

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; MOISTURE; NASA; PRODUCTIVITY; RAIN; SOILS; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; LAND DEGRADATION; NDVI3G; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES; RESTREND; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS; WEST AFRICA;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84930027151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505471     Document Type: Article

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