The NOAA AVHRR is considered to be one of the
largest image archives ever gathered in the history
of remote sensing. Although designed to support
meteorological applications, The NOAA AVHRRs
ability to produce an index of relatively green
vegetation biomass, coupled with its ability to
virtually produce cloud-free monthly composites has
now yielded an extraordinary time series more than
20 years in length. This book looks at the potential
of the archive as a tool for understanding
environmental dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions.
The principal tool used in this investigation was...