Understanding the spatial temporal vegetation dynamics in Rwanda

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ndayisaba, Felix ^a,b,c   Guo, Hao ^a,b   Bao, Anming ^a   Guo, Hui ^a,b   Karamage, Fidele ^a,b,c   Kayiranga, Alphonse ^a,b,c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Independent Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Hurst exponent; MODIS; NDVI; Rainfall; Rwanda; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FLOODS; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AVHRR; HURST EXPONENTS; MODIS; NDVI; RWANDA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84962617046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020129     Document Type: Article

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