Evaluation of three MODIS-derived vegetation index time series for dryland vegetation dynamics monitoring

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7597-7614

  Lu, Linlin ^a   Kuenzer, Claudia ^b   Wang, Cuizhen ^c   Guo, Huadong ^a   Li, Qingting ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dryland; MODIS; Phenology; Time series; Vegetation dynamics; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TIME SERIES;

DRYLAND; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

COEFFICIENTS; EVALUATION; MONITORING; PLANTS;

EID: 84933566932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607597     Document Type: Article

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