Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management
impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological …

The operational utilization of remote sensing techniques for monitoring terrestrial
ecosystems is often constrained by problems of under-sampling in space and time …

This work presents an investigation of the forest information content of spectral vegetation
indices including the SR, NDVI, PVI, SAVI, TSAVI, and GEMI. The results were derived from …

The current work investigates on the applicability of a widespread bio-geochemical model
(BIOME-BGC) to estimate seasonal photosynthesis and transpiration within water limited …

Linear regression procedures can be applied to derive spectral endmembers using satellite
images and superimposed abundance estimates of known components. A common …

The utilization of National and Oceanic Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High
Resolution Radiometer-Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for crop yield …

Routine applications of nonparametric estimation methods to satellite data for assisting the
creation of forest inventories in Northern European countries are stimulating interest in the …

A time series of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data derived from 11
TM/ETM+ images was used to examine the recovery characteristics of chaparral vegetation …

The current paper describes the development and testing of a procedure which can use
widely available remotely sensed and ancillary data to assess large-scale patterns of forest …

Fire is a major driver of land surface transformation in California Mediterranean-type
shrublands (ie chaparral). The re-growth of leaves following fire impacts a wide variety of …