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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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| Spatiotemporal reconstruction of agricultural land cover in Nepal from 1970 to 2010 | Paudel, Basanta, Zhang, Yili, Li, Shicheng, Wu, Xue | Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Seasonality constraints to livestock grazing intensity | Fetzel, Tamara, Havlik, Petr, Herrero, Mario, Erb, KarlHeinz | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Towards improved parameterization of a macroscale hydrologic model in a discontinuous permafrost boreal forest ecosystem | Endalamaw, Abraham, Bolton, W. Robert, Young-Robertson, Jessica M., Morton, Don, Hinzman, Larry, Nijssen, Bart | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| A combined GLAS and MODIS estimation of the global distribution of mean forest canopy height | Wang, Yuanyuan, Li, Guicai, Ding, Jianhua, Guo, Zhaodi, Tang, Shihao, Wang, Cheng, Huang, Qingni, Liu, Ronggao, Chen, Jing M. | 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, Plant Characteristics, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Crown, Canopy Characteristics, Litter Characteristics, Community Structure, Evapotranspiration, Primary Production, Respiration Rate, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Vegetation Cover |
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| Modeling the role of vegetation in hydrological responses to climate change | Liu, Xingcai, Tang, Qiuhong, Zhang, Xuejun, Leng, Guoyong | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Global root zone storage capacity from satellite-based evaporation | Wang-Erlandsson, Lan, Bastiaanssen, Wim G. M., Gao, Hongkai, Jagermeyr, Jonas, Senay, Gabriel B., van Dijk, Albert I. J. M., Guerschman, Juan P., Keys, Patrick W., Gordon, Line J., Savenije, Hubert H. G. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009 | Venter, Oscar, Sanderson, Eric W., Magrach, Ainhoa, Allan, James R., Beher, Jutta, Jones, Kendall R., Possingham, Hugh P., Laurance, William F., Wood, Peter, Fekete, Balazs M., Levy, Marc A., Watson, James E.M. | Population Density, Infrastructure, Food Security, Conservation, Environmental Health Factors, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Land Use/Land Cover, Anthropogenic/Human Influenced Ecosystems, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Land Use Classes | ||
| Global estimation of effective plant rooting depth: Implications for hydrological modeling | Yang, Yuting, Donohue, Randall J., McVicar, Tim R. | Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon, Forests, Respiration Rate, Primary Production, Heat Flux, Sediment Transport, Soil Respiration, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| PALADYN v1. 0, a comprehensive land surfacevegetationcarbon cycle model of intermediate complexity | Willeit, Matteo, Ganopolski, Andrey | Albedo, Anisotropy, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Ratooning and perennial staple crops in Malawi. A review | Roge, Paul, Snapp, Sieglinde, Kakwera, Mayamiko Nathaniel, Mungai, Leah, Jambo, Isaac, Peter, Brad | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| A spatially explicit reconstruction of cropland cover in China from 1661 to 1996 | Li, Shicheng, He, Fanneng, Zhang, Xuezhen | Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Aquatic Ecosystems | Melack, John M. | Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Assessing spatiotemporal variation of drought in China and its impact on | Yan, Hao, Wang, ShaoQiang, Wang, JunBang, Lu, HouQuan, Guo, AnHong, Zhu, ZaiChun, Myneni, Ranga B., Shugart, Herman H. | Carbon, Nitrogen, Soil Water Holding Capacity, Soil Bulk Density, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Horizons/Profile, Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Regional prediction of carbon isotopes in soil carbonates for Asian dust source tracer | Chen, Bing, Cui, Xinjuan, Wang, Yaqiang | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Reconstructing the historical spatial land use pattern for Jiangsu | Jin, Xiaobin, Pan, Qian, Yang, Xuhong, Bai, Qing, Zhou, Yinkang | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| The time scales of variability of marine low clouds | de Szoeke, Simon P., Verlinden, Kathryn L., Yuter, Sandra E., Mechem, David B. | Reflectance, Atmospheric Ozone, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Fraction, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Types, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Top Temperature, Surface Pressure, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Surface Temperature, Optical Depth/Thickness, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, Ice Extent, Ice Extent, Snow Cover, Snow Cover, Boundary Layer Temperature, Air Temperature | ||
| The world's biomes and primary production as a triple tragedy of the commons foraging game played among plants | McNickle, Gordon G., Gonzalez-Meler, Miquel A., Lynch, Douglas J., Baltzer, Jennifer L., Brown, Joel S. | 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 distribution and genesis of eroded phase soils in the conterminous United States | Jelinski, Nicolas A., Yoo, Kyungsoo | Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Terrestrial and marine perspectives on modeling organic matter degradation pathways | Burd, Adrian B., Frey, Serita, Cabre, Anna, Ito, Takamitsu, Levine, Naomi M., Lnborg, Christian, Long, Matthew, Mauritz, Marguerite, Thomas, R. Quinn, Stephens, Brandon M., Vanwalleghem, Tom, Zeng, Ning | Agricultural Lands, Land Use Classes | ||
| Impact of interactive vegetation phenology on the Canadian RCM simulated climate over North America | Garnaud, Camille, Sushama, Laxmi, Verseghy, Diana | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Effects of forest management on productivity and carbon sequestration: A review and hypothesis | Noormets, A., Epron, D., Domec, J.C., McNulty, S.G., Fox, T., Sun, G., King, J.S. | 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 | ||
| Hydroclimatic changes and drivers in the Sava River Catchment and comparison with Swedish catchments | Levi, Lea, Jaramillo, Fernando, Andricevic, Roko, Destouni, Georgia | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Gross primary production of global forest ecosystems has been overestimated | Ma, Jianyong, Yan, Xiaodong, Dong, Wenjie, Chou, Jieming | 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 | ||
| Improving the dynamics of Northern Hemisphere high-latitude vegetation in the ORCHIDEE ecosystem model | Zhu, D., Peng, S. S., Ciais, P., Viovy, N., Druel, A., Kageyama, M., Krinner, G., Peylin, P., Ottle, C., Piao, S. L., Poulter, B., Schepaschenko, D., Shvidenko, A. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index | ||
| Hominin geographical range dynamics and relative brain size: Do non-human primates provide a good analogy? | MacDonald, Katharine, Smaers, Jeroen B., Steele, James | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| An improved isotopic method for partitioning net ecosystematmosphere CO2 exchange | Wehr, R., Saleska, S.R. | 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 | ||
| An increase in the biogenic aerosol concentration as a contributing | Fang, Keyan, Makkonen, Risto, Guo, Zhengtang, Zhao, Yan, Seppa, Heikki | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Biosphere-climate interactions in a changing climate over North America | Garnaud, Camille, Sushama, Laxmi | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| An overview of 21 global and 43 regional land-cover mapping products | Grekousis, George, Mountrakis, Giorgos, Kavouras, Marinos | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Soil Classification | ||
| Processing Remote Sensing Data in Cloud-Computing Environments | Sugumaran, Ramanathan, Hegeman, James W., Sardeshmukh, Vivek B., Armstrong, Marc P. | Vegetation Cover, Cropland | ||
| Improved simulation of firevegetation interactions in the Land surface Processes and eXchanges dynamic global vegetation model (LPX-Mv1) | Kelley, D. I., Harrison, S. P., Prentice, I. C. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index, Biomass Dynamics, Primary Production, Biomass | ||
| Eco-hydrology driven fire regime in savanna | Ursino, Nadia | Herbivory, Dominant Species, Savannas, Forests, Grazing Dynamics/Plant Herbivory, Fire Occurrence, Precipitation Amount, Vegetation Cover, Nitrogen, Soil Texture | ||
| Global correlation between surface heat fluxes and insolation in the 11-year solar cycle: The latitudinal effect | Volobuev, D. M., Makarenko, N. G. | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation | Bajzelj, Bojana, Richards, Keith S., Allwood, Julian M., Smith, Pete, Dennis, John S., Curmi, Elizabeth, Gilligan, Christopher A. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| History of land use in India during 18802010: Large-scale land transformations reconstructed from satellite data and historical archives | Tian, Hanqin, Banger, Kamaljit, Bo, Tao, Dadhwal, Vinay K. | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Methane emissions from Amazonian Rivers and their contribution to the | Sawakuchi, Henrique O., Bastviken, David, Sawakuchi, Andre O., Krusche, Alex V., Ballester, Maria V. R., Richey, Jeffrey E. | Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Pan-tropical analysis of climate effects on seasonal tree growth | Wagner, Fabien, Rossi, Vivien, Aubry-Kientz, Melaine, Bonal, Damien, Dalitz, Helmut, Gliniars, Robert, Stahl, Clement, Trabucco, Antonio, Herault, Bruno | Biomass, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| Causal relationships versus emergent patterns in the global controls of | Bistinas, I., Harrison, S. P., Prentice, I. C., Pereira, J. M. C. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index | ||
| BECCS capability of dedicated bioenergy crops under a future land-use | Kato, Etsushi, Yamagata, Yoshiki | Soil Bulk Density, Sediment Transport, Primary Production, Biogeochemical Cycles, Soil Chemistry, Soil Depth, Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| Biogeophysical feedbacks enhance the Arctic terrestrial carbon sink in regional Earth system dynamics | Zhang, W., Jansson, C., Miller, P. A., Smith, B., Samuelsson, P. | Biomass Dynamics, Primary Production, Biomass, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance, Optical Depth/Thickness |
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| Data-Model Needs for Belowground Ecology. A Summary Report from the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) Mini-Workshop, May 8, 2014 | Bailey, Vanessa, Hanson, Paul J., Jastrow, Julie, Torn, Margaret, Stover, Daniel | Organic Matter, Soil Bulk Density, Soil Classification, Soil Depth, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Texture, Phosphorus, Soil Chemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Respiration, Soil Respiration, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Soil Water Holding Capacity, Biomass, Nutrients, Plant Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon, Forests, Respiration Rate, Primary Production, Heat Flux, Sediment Transport, Carbon, Nitrogen, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Water Table, Soil Classification, Geomorphic Landforms/Processes, Soil Color, Soil Horizons/Profile, Soil Structure, Soil Ph, Drainage, Terrain Elevation, Methane, Nitric Oxide, Nitrous Oxide, Litter Characteristics, Soil Gas/Air, Isotopes, Reforestation/Revegetation, Soil Gas/Air, Ammonia, Nitrogen Oxides, Ecosystem Functions, Cation Exchange Capacity, Suspended Solids, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Vegetation Species, Humidity, Soil Moisture, Soil Porosity, Nitrogen, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Soil Fertility, Permafrost, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, Total Dissolved Solids, Wetlands, Inundation, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Carbon, Nitrous Oxide, Discharge, Groundwater Chemistry, Discharge/Flow, Surface Water Chemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles |
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| Response of vegetation to the 2003 European drought was mitigated by height | Bevan, S. L., Los, S. O., North, P. R. J. | Biomass, Plant Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon, Forests, Respiration Rate, Primary Production, Heat Flux, Sediment Transport, Soil Respiration, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| The effect of driving climate data on the simulated terrestrial carbon | Garnaud, C., Sushama, L., Arora, V. K. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| The influence of inter-annually varying albedo on regional climate and drought | Meng, X. H., Evans, J. P., McCabe, M. F. | Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance | ||
| The positive feedback loop between the impacts of climate change and agricultural expansion and relocation | Bajzelj, Bojana, Richards, Keith | Agriculture Production, Food Security, Climate Adaptation, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| The projected impact of climate change on water availability and development in the Koshi Basin, Nepal | Bharati, Luna, Gurung, Pabitra, Jayakody, Priyantha, Smakhtin, Vladimir, Bhattarai, Utsav | Agricultural Lands, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index | ||
| A comprehensive benchmarking system for evaluating global vegetation models | Kelley, D. I., Prentice, I. C., Harrison, S. P., Wang, H., Simard, M., Fisher, J. B., Willis, K. O. | Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index | ||
| n-Alkanes in Fresh Snow in Hokkaido, Japan: Implications for Ice Core Studies | Sankelo, Paula, Kawamura, Kimitaka, Seki, Osamu, Shibata, Hideaki, Bendle, James | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance | ||
| High-latitude cooling associated with landscape changes from North American boreal forest fires | Rogers, B. M., Randerson, J. T., Bonan, G. B. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Land Use Classes, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance | ||
| Phenological versus meteorological controls on land-atmosphere water and | Puma, Michael J., Koster, Randal D., Cook, Benjamin I. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Land Use Classes, Soil Bulk Density, Sediment Transport, Primary Production, Biogeochemical Cycles, Soil Chemistry, Soil Depth, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance |
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