Assessing future vegetation trends and restoration prospects in the Karst regions of Southwest China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Tong, Xiaowei ^a,b   Wang, Kelin ^a   Brandt, Martin ^c   Yue, Yuemin ^a   Liao, Chujie ^a,b   Fensholt, Rasmus ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Future vegetation trends; Growing season NDVI (GSN); Hurst exponent; Persistent trends; Terrain niche index (TNI)

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION;

FUTURE VEGETATION TRENDS; GROWING SEASON; HURST EXPONENTS; PERSISTENT TRENDS; TERRAIN NICHE INDEX (TNI);

VEGETATION;

EID: 84971473023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050357     Document Type: Article

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