The normalized difference vegetation index /

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to assess spatio-temporal changes i...

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Main Author: Pettorelli, Nathalie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to assess spatio-temporal changes in green vegetation. The NDVI opens the possibility of addressing questions on scales inaccessible to ground-based methods alone; it is mostly freely available with global coverage overseveral decades. This novel text provides an authoritative overview of the principles and possible applications of t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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