Inter-annual and seasonal trends of vegetation condition in the Upper Blue Nile (Abay) Basin: Dual-scale time series analysis

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 617-636

  Teferi, E ^a   Uhlenbrook, S ^b,c   Bewket, W ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NON-PARAMETRIC TRENDS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; ROBUST IDENTIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE LAND USE; VEGETATION CONDITION;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVHRR; MODIS; NDVI; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; ETHIOPIA; NILE RIVER;

EID: 84942574249     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-6-617-2015     Document Type: Article

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