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Publications Citing AVHRR Data
Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument.
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| PEST-CHEMGRIDS, global gridded maps of the top 20 crop-specific pesticide application rates from 2015 to 2025 | Maggi, Federico, Tang, Fiona H. M., la Cecilia, Daniele, McBratney, Alexander | Pesticides, Fertilizers, Conservation, Sustainability, Vegetation Cover, Cropland, Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments |
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| Application of a Regional Climate Model to Assess Changes in the | Hostetler, S., Reker, R., Alder, J., Loveland, T., Willard, D., Bernhardt, C., Sundquist, E., Thompson, R. | Suspended Solids, Soil Classification, Soil Texture, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Characterizing uncertainties in the ESA-CCI land cover map of the epoch 2010 and their impacts on MPI-ESM climate simulations | Georgievski, Goran, Hagemann, Stefan | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Diagnostics and Mapping of Geoecological Situations in the Permafrost Zone of Russia | Tumel, Nellie, Zotova, Larisa | Terrain Elevation, Landscape Patterns, Vegetation Cover, Biomass, Air Temperature, Vegetation Species, Forests | ||
| Terran World Spectral Simulator | Merrelli, Aronne, Turnbull, Margaret C., LEcuyer, Tristan S. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Speleothem biomarker evidence for a negative terrestrial feedback on climate during Holocene warm periods | Wang, Canfa, Bendle, James A., Greene, Sarah E., Griffiths, Michael L., Huang, Junhua, Moossen, Heiko, Zhang, Hongbin, Ashley, Kate, Xie, Shucheng | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification | Polissar, Pratigya J., Rose, Cassaundra, Uno, Kevin T., Phelps, Samuel R., deMenocal, Peter | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Streamflow prediction under extreme data scarcity: a step toward hydrologic process understanding within severely data-limited regions | Alipour, M. H., Kibler, Kelly M. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Land Use Classes | ||
| Spatial, temporal, and spectral variations in albedo due to vegetation changes in China's grasslands | Zheng, Lei, Zhao, Guosong, Dong, Jinwei, Ge, Quansheng, Tao, Jian, Zhang, Xuezhen, Qi, Youcun, Doughty, Russell B., Xiao, Xiangming | Plant Phenology, Vegetation Index, Plant Phenological Changes, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Shrub tundra ecohydrology: rainfall interception is a major component of the water balance | Zwieback, Simon, Chang, Qianyu, Marsh, Philip, Berg, Aaron | Vegetation Index, Landscape Patterns | ||
| Transferability and the effect of colour calibration during multi-image classification of Arctic vegetation change | Kolyaie, Samira, Treier, Urs Albert, Watmough, Gary Richard, Madsen, Bjarke, Bcher, Peder Klith, Psomas, Achilleas, Bosch, Ruedi, Normand, Signe | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | ||
| Using saildrones to validate satellite-derived sea surface salinity and sea surface temperature along the California/Baja Coast | Vazquez-Cuervo, Jorge, Gomez-Valdes, Jose, Bouali, Marouan, Miranda, Luis, Van der Stocken, Tom, Tang, Wenqing, Gentemann, Chelle | Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Surface Temperature, Conductivity, Oxygen, Chlorophyll, Sea Surface Temperature, AIR TEMPERATURE, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, SURFACE WINDS, Salinity |
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| Variability in Trends and Indicators of CO2 Exchange Across Arctic Wetlands | Coffer, Megan M., Hestir, Erin L. | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | ||
| A Bayesian ensemble data assimilation to constrain model parameters and land-use carbon emissions | Lienert, Sebastian, Joos, Fortunat | Biomass Dynamics, Primary Production, Biomass, Vegetation Index, Evergreen Vegetation, Dominant Species, Deciduous Vegetation, Carbon, Forests, Ecosystem Functions, Precipitation Amount, Cloud Frequency, Evaporation, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Forest Management, Vegetation Species, Land Management, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Texture, Terrain Elevation | ||
| Inter-decadal variability of the Black Sea surface and cold intermediate layer temperature | Institute of Natural and Technical Systems, Novikova, A.M., Polonsky, A.B. | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| LPJmL4-a dynamic global vegetation model with managed land Part 2: Model | Schaphoff, Sibyll, Forkel, Matthias, Muller, Christoph, Knauer, Jurgen, von Bloh, Werner, Gerten, Dieter, Jagermeyr, Jonas, Lucht, Wolfgang, Rammig, Anja, Thonicke, Kirsten, Waha, Katharina | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Rivers/Streams, Hydropattern, Terrain Elevation, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index | ||
| Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America | Hody, James W., Kays, Roland | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Elevation-dependent effects of climate change on vegetation greenness in the high mountains of southwest China during 19822013 | Tao, Jian, Xu, Tongqing, Dong, Jinwei, Yu, Xiuqin, Jiang, Yanbin, Zhang, Yangjian, Huang, Ke, Zhu, Juntao, Dong, Jianxin, Xu, Yimin, Wang, Shusheng | Plant Phenology, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenological Changes | ||
| Global validation of MODIS nearsurface air and dew point temperatures | Famiglietti, Caroline A., Fisher, Joshua B., Halverson, Gregory, Borbas, Eva E. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, Surface Pressure, Atmospheric Stability, Surface Temperature, Air Temperature, Boundary Layer Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, Skin Temperature, Vertical Profiles, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Condensation, Water Vapor Profiles, Rain Storms, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Changes in tall shrub abundance on the North Slope of Alaska, 20002010 | Duchesne, Rocio R., Chopping, Mark J., Tape, Ken D., Wang, Zhuosen, Schaaf, Crystal L.B. | Terrain Elevation, Landscape Patterns, Vegetation Cover, Biomass, Air Temperature, Vegetation Species, Forests, Canopy Characteristics | ||
| Comparative study on changes of croplands between North Korea and South Korea during 19902015 | Yu, Hao, Zhang, Bai, Wang, Zongming | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Description and validation of the Simple, Efficient, Dynamic, Global, Ecological Simulator (SEDGES v.1.0) | Paiewonsky, Pablo, Elison Timm, Oliver | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index, Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon, Forests, Respiration Rate, Primary Production, Heat Flux, Sediment Transport, Soil Respiration | ||
| Correspondence between <SUP>13</SUP>C and <SUP>15</SUP>N in soils suggests coordinated fractionation processes for soil C and N | Nel, Jacques A., Craine, Joseph M., Cramer, Michael D. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems definitions, theories, and empirical evidence | Manzoni, Stefano, Capek, Petr, Porada, Philipp, Thurner, Martin, Winterdahl, Mattias, Beer, Christian, Bruchert, Volker, Frouz, Jan, Herrmann, Anke M., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Lyon, Steve W., Santruckova, Hana, Vico, Giulia, Way, Danielle | Vegetation Index, Evergreen Vegetation, Dominant Species, Deciduous Vegetation, Carbon, Biomass, Forests, Ecosystem Functions, Precipitation Amount, Cloud Frequency, Evaporation, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Forest Management, Vegetation Species, Land Management, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Texture, Terrain Elevation | ||
| The trans-Alaska pipeline system facilitates shrub establishment in northern Alaska | Dwight, Rosemary A., Cairns, David M. | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Lakes/Reservoirs, Terrain Elevation, Surface Roughness, Vegetation Species | ||
| Sub-chapter 2.4.2. Mediterranean ecosystems facing global change | Mouillot, Florent, Rambal, Serge, Limousin, Jean-Marc, Longepierre, Damien, Chiraz, Belhadj Kheder, Ouelhazi, Bahri | Vegetation Index, Evergreen Vegetation, Dominant Species, Deciduous Vegetation, Carbon, Biomass, Forests, Ecosystem Functions, Precipitation Amount, Cloud Frequency, Evaporation, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Forest Management, Vegetation Species, Land Management, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Texture, Terrain Elevation | ||
| SelfAmplifying Feedbacks Accelerate Greening and Warming of the Arctic | Zhang, W., Miller, P. A., Jansson, C., Samuelsson, P., Mao, J., Smith, B. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Spatially explicit life cycle impact assessment for soil erosion from global crop production | van Zelm, Rosalie, van der Velde, Marijn, Balkovic, Juraj, Cengic, Mirza, Elshout, Pieter M.F., Koellner, Thomas, Nunez, Montserrat, Obersteiner, Michael, Schmid, Erwin, Huijbregts, Mark A.J. | Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) forests as a significant carbon sink? A case study based on 4-year measurements in central Taiwan | Lin, MengYin, Hsieh, IFang, Lin, PoHsuan, Laplace, Sophie, Ohashi, Mizue, Chen, TsaiHuei, Kume, Tomonori | Vegetation Index, Evergreen Vegetation, Dominant Species, Deciduous Vegetation, Carbon, Biomass, Forests, Ecosystem Functions, Precipitation Amount, Cloud Frequency, Evaporation, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Forest Management, Vegetation Species, Land Management, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Texture, Terrain Elevation | ||
| Incorporation of plant traits in a land surface model helps explain the global biogeographical distribution of major forest functional types | Lu, Xingjie, Wang, YingPing, Wright, Ian J., Reich, Peter B., Shi, Zheng, Dai, Yongjiu | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index | ||
| Increased C-3 productivity in Midwestern lawns since 1982 revealed by | Hobbie, Erik A., Schubert, Brian A., Craine, Joseph M., Linder, Ernst, Pringle, Anne | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Long-term agricultural performance and climate variability for drought assessment: a regional study from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states, India | P., Bhavani, V., Chakravarthi, Roy, P. S., Joshi, P. K., K., Chandrasekar | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | ||
| Future supply and demand of net primary production in the Sahel | Sallaba, Florian, Olin, Stefan, Engstrom, Kerstin, Abdi, Abdulhakim M., Boke-Olen, Niklas, Lehsten, Veiko, Ardo, Jonas, Seaquist, Jonathan W. | Vegetation Index, Evergreen Vegetation, Dominant Species, Deciduous Vegetation, Carbon, Biomass, Forests, Ecosystem Functions, Precipitation Amount, Cloud Frequency, Evaporation, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Forest Management, Vegetation Species, Land Management, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Texture, Terrain Elevation | ||
| IMPACTS OF LAND USE/COVER CHANGE ON THE ARIDITY TREND | WANG, SHUYU | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Observational Quantification of Climatic and Human Influences on Vegetation Greening in China | Hua, Wenjian, Chen, Haishan, Zhou, Liming, Xie, Zhenghui, Qin, Minhua, Li, Xing, Ma, Hedi, Huang, Qinghan, Sun, Shanlei | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Estimation of Asian and Global Carbon Fluxes Using Maximum Likelihood Ensemble Filter (MLEF) | Department of Statistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, Perera, K.M.P., Lokupitiya, R.S., Zupanski, D., Denning, A.S., Meegama, R.G.N., Lokupitiya, E.Y.K., Patra, P.K. | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Water Vapor, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation, Radiative Forcing, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Index | ||
| Evaluating carbon fluxes of global forest ecosystems by using an individual tree-based model FORCCHN | Ma, Jianyong, Shugart, Herman H., Yan, Xiaodong, Cao, Cougui, Wu, Shuang, Fang, Jing | Carbon, Nitrogen, Soil Water Holding Capacity, Soil Bulk Density, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Horizons/Profile, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Ecogeographical gradients in plumage coloration among Australasian songbird clades | Friedman, Nicholas R., Remes, Vladimir | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Drivers and environmental responses to the changing annual snow cycle of northern Alaska | Cox, Christopher J., Stone, Robert S., Douglas, David C., Stanitski, Diane M., Divoky, George J., Dutton, Geoff S., Sweeney, Colm, George, J. Craig, Longenecker, David U. | Plant Phenology, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenological Changes | ||
| Identification of desertification-sensitive areas in the Brazilian Northeast through vegetation indices | Ferreira, Thomas R., Pace, Frederico T. Di, Silva, Bernardo B. Da, Delgado, Jessica R. | Vegetation Index, Plant Phenology, Plant Phenological Changes, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Homogenization of dispersal ability across bird species in response to landscape change | Martin, Amanda E., Desrochers, Andre, Fahrig, Lenore | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Land surface albedo and vegetation feedbacks enhanced the millennium drought in south-east Australia | Evans, Jason P., Meng, Xianhong, McCabe, Matthew F. | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Peak growing season gross uptake of carbon in North America is largest in the Midwest USA | Hilton, Timothy W., Whelan, Mary E., Zumkehr, Andrew, Kulkarni, Sarika, Berry, Joseph A., Baker, Ian T., Montzka, Stephen A., Sweeney, Colm, Miller, Benjamin R., Elliott Campbell, J. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Accuracy comparison of gridded historical cultivated land data in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces | Yuan, Cun, Ye, Yu, Tang, Chanchan, Fang, Xiuqi | Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Assessing climate change impacts, benefits of mitigation, and | Kim, John B, Monier, Erwan, Sohngen, Brent, Pitts, G Stephen, Drapek, Ray, McFarland, James, Ohrel, Sara, Cole, Jefferson | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Climate change impacts on selected global rangeland ecosystem services | Boone, Randall B., Conant, Richard T., Sircely, Jason, Thornton, Philip K., Herrero, Mario | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Data-mining analysis of the global distribution of soil carbon in observational databases and Earth system models | Hashimoto, Shoji, Nanko, Kazuki, Tupek, Boris, Lehtonen, Aleksi | Carbon, Nitrogen, Soil Water Holding Capacity, Soil Bulk Density, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Horizons/Profile, Carbon, Grasslands, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Topographic Effects, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Terrain Elevation, Rivers/Streams, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Use Classes, Albedo, Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Reflectance, Sediment Transport, Primary Production, Biogeochemical Cycles, Soil Depth, Precipitation Amount, Cloud Frequency, Humidity, Air Temperature |
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| Reconstruction of Lu-level cropland areas in the Northern Song Dynasty | He, Fanneng, Li, Meijiao, Li, Shicheng | Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration | Wei, Zhongwang, Yoshimura, Kei, Wang, Lixin, Miralles, Diego G., Jasechko, Scott, Lee, Xuhui | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | ||
| Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Landscape FreezeThaw Status Related to Frost Hazard Monitoring | Kim, Youngwook, Kimball, John S., Du, Jinyang | Plant Phenology, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenological Changes, Vegetation Index, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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