Long Term Trends in Microwave Brightness Temperature and Vegetation from SSM/I and AVHRR

Author

Kanwar, Rahul ; Lakshmi, Venket

Author_Institution

Dept. of Geol. Sci., Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

fYear

2006

fDate

July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

255

Abstract

Ecological and hydrological cycles play a key role in global climate dynamics. Remote sensing data are important in climate studies as they provide a global coverage of important hydrological variables at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. In this paper we study the long term relationships between NDVI derived from AVHRR and microwave brightness temperature from SSM/I sensor for different climate regimes in the world.

Keywords

climatology; land surface temperature; remote sensing; vegetation; AVHRR; Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; NDVI; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; SSM/I; Special Sensor Microwave/Imager; climate studies; ecological cycle; evapotranspiration; global climate dynamics; hydrological cycle; microwave brightness temperature; photosynthesis; remote sensing data; spatial scale; temporal scale; vegetation; Brightness temperature; Frequency; Land surface; Microwave sensors; Ocean temperature; Satellite broadcasting; Sea surface; Snow; Temperature sensors; Vegetation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9510-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2006.69

Filename

4241216