Remotely sensed assessment of urbanization effects on vegetation phenology in China's 32 major cities

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 272-281

  Zhou, Decheng ^a,b   Zhao, Shuqing ^b   Zhang, Liangxia ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End of growing season; Global warming; Start of growing season; Urban heat island; Urbanization; Vegetation phenology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; RURAL AREAS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

END OF GROWING SEASONS; GROWING SEASON; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84957615422     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.010     Document Type: Article

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