Spatial-Temporal NDVI Variation of Different Alpine Grassland Classes and Groups in Northern Tibet from 2000 to 2013

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 254-263

  Zhang, Xiaoke ^a,b   Lu, Xuyang ^a,c   Wang, Xiaodan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

alpine grassland; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); northern Tibet; precipitation; temperature

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; GRASSLAND; MODIS; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84941642758     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-14-00110.1     Document Type: Article

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