Evaluating an enhanced vegetation condition index (VCI) based on VIUPD for drought monitoring in the continental United States

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Jiao, Wenzhe ^a,b   Zhang, Lifu ^a   Chang, Qing ^a,b   Fu, Dongjie ^a   Cen, Yi ^a   Tong, Qingxi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Drought monitoring; MODIS; NDVI; VCI; VIUPD

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

DROUGHT MONITORING; MODIS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES; VIUPD;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 84962577833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030224     Document Type: Article

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