Mapping and attributing normalized difference vegetation index trends for Nepal

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Krakauer, Nir Y ^a,b   Lakhankar, Tarendra ^a   Anadón, José D ^b,c  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon fertilization; Climate change; Land cover change; Random forest; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING;

INTERANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RANDOM FORESTS; REGRESSION TREES; RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY;

VEGETATION;

EID: 85032878191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9100986     Document Type: Article

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