Diverse relationships between forest growth and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at a global scale

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 187, Issue , 2016, Pages 14-29

  Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Camarero, J Julio ^a   Olano, José M ^b   Martín Hernández, Natalia ^a   Peña Gallardo, Marina ^a   Tomás Burguera, Miquel ^c   Gazol, Antonio ^a   Azorin Molina, Cesar ^d   Bhuyan, Upasana ^e   El Kenawy, Ahmed ^f  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Forest growth; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Tree rings

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ACCUMULATION PERIODS; CLIMATE CONDITION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST GROWTH; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE RINGS;

FORESTRY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH DETERMINATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; NDVI; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; TREE RING; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 85007618857     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.001     Document Type: Article

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