Towards an improved environmental understanding of land surface dynamics in ukraine based on multi-source remote sensing time-series datasets from 1982 to 2013

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Ghazaryan, Gohar ^a,b   Dubovyk, Olena ^a   Kussul, Nataliia ^c   Menz, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Eastern Europe; Land cover change; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; AVHRR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EASTERN EUROPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TREND ANALYSIS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84983755389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080617     Document Type: Article

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