Operational drought monitoring in Kenya using MODIS NDVI time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Klisch, Anja ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drought Contingency Funds; Kenya; MODIS; NDMA; Uncertainty; Vegetation condition index; Whittaker smoother

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CHAINS; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

CONTINGENCY FUNDS; KENYA; MODIS; NDMA; UNCERTAINTY; VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES; WHITTAKER SMOOTHER;

DROUGHT;

EID: 84971629671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040267     Document Type: Article

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