SELECTED REFERENCES ON THE NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX FROM AVHRR

Asrar, G., Fuchs, M., Kanemasu, E. T., and Hatfield, J. L., 1984.  Estimating 
absorbed photosynthetic radiation and leaf area index from spectral reflec-
tions in wheat.  Agron. J., V. 76, pp. 300-306.

Bartlett, D. S., Hardisky, M. A., Johnson, R. W., Gross, M. F., Klemes, V., 
and Hartman J. M., 1988. Continental scale variability in vegetation 
reflectance and its relationship to canopy morphology. International Journal 
of Remote Sensing, 9(7), 1223-1241.

Choudhury, B. J., and Golus, R. E., 1988. Estimating soil wetness using 
satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 9(7), 1251-1257.

Cihlar, J., St.-Laurent, L., and Dyer, J. A., 1991.  Relation between the 
normalized difference vegetation index and ecological variables.  Remote 
Sensing of Environment, v. 35, pp. 279-298.

Clark, David M., Hastings, David A., and Kineman, John J., 1991.  Global 
databases and their implications for GIS.  IN Maguire, David J., Goodchild, 
Michael F., and Rhind, David W., eds., Geographical Information Systems:  
Overview, Principles and Applications.  Burnt Mill, Essex, United Kingdom, 
Longman.  V.2, pp. 217-231.

Di, L., 1991. Regional-scale soil moisture monitoring using NOAA/AVHRR
data, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-
Lincoln.

Di, L., Rundquist, D., and Han, L., 1991. A mathematic model for predicting
NDVI using daily precipitation. Manuscript to be published.

Gallo, K. P., 1990.  Satellite-derived vegetation indices:  a new climatic 
variable?  Proceedings, Symposium on global change systems, February 5-9, 
1990, Anaheim, California.  American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massa-
chusetts.

Gallo, K. P., and Heddinghaus, T. R., 1989.  The use of satellite-derived 
vegetation indices as indicators of climatic variability.  Proceedings, Sixth 
Conference on Applied Climatology, March 7-10, 1989, Charleston, SD. American 
Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Gallo, K. P., and Brown, J. F., 1990.  Satellite-derived indices for monitor-
ing global phytoclimatology.  Proceedings, 10th International Geoscience and 
Remote Sensing Symposium, May, 1990, Washington, DC.

Gallo, K. P., Doughtry, C. S. T., and Bauer, M. E., 1985.  Spectral estima-
tion of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation in corn canopies.  
Remote Sensing of Environment, V. 17, pp. 221-232.

Gatlin, J. A., Sullivan R. J., Tucker, C. J., 1984. Consideration of and
improvements to large-scale vegetation monitoring. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience
and Remote Sensing, GE-22(6), 496-502. 

Goward, S. N. 1990.  Experiences and perspective in compiling long-term 
remote sensing data sets on landscapes and biospheric processes.  GeoJournal, 






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Goward, S. N., Dye, D., Kerber, A., and Kalb, V., 1987.  Comparison of North 
and South American biomass from AVHRR observations.  Geocarto International, 
v. 1, pp. 27-39.

Goward, S. N., Markham, B., Dye, D. G., Dulaney, W., and Yang, J., 1991.  
Derivation of quantitative normalized difference vegetation index measure-
ments from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer observations.  Remote 
Sensing of Environment, v. 35, pp. 257-277.

Gray, T. I., and McCrary, D. G., 1981. The environmental vegetation index,
a tool potentially useful for arid land management. AgRISTAR Report No. EW-
N-1-04076, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 17132.

Gutman, G. Garik, 1991.  Vegetation indices from AVHRR:  An update and future 
prospects.  Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 35, pp. 121-136.

Gutman, G. Garik, and Liu, William T., 1991.  Bio-climates of South America 
as derived from multispectral AVHRR data.  24th International Symposium on 
Remote Sensing of Environment, Rio de Janeiro, May 1991.  Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan.  Summary pp. 19-20; Pro-
ceedings in press.

Hastings, David A., and Di, Liping, 1992.  Modeling Global Change Phenomena 
with GIs using the Global Change Data Base.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  
(in press)

Hastings, David A. Kineman, John J., Davis, W. M., and Clark, David M., 1989.  
Two unsung problems with GIS:  Getting a system that does what you need, and 
working with non-ideal data.  Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on 
Geographic Information Systems, U. S. Professional Development Corporation 
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Hastings, David A., Kineman, John J., and Clark, David D., 1991.  Development 
and application of global data bases:  considerable progress, but more 
collaboration needed.  International Journal of Geographical Information 
Systems, v. 5., pp. 137-146.

Kidwell, Katherine B., 1990.  Global Vegetation Index Users Guide.  National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, 
Satellite Data Services Division, Washington DC 20233.  45 pp.

Kineman, J. J., Clark, D. M., and Croze, H., 1990. Data integration and 
modelling for global change:  An international experiment.  Proceedings of 
the International Conference and Workshop on Global Natural Resource Monitor-
ing and Assessments:  Preparing for the 21st Century (Venice, Italy, 24-30 
September 1989).  Bethesda, Maryland, American Society of Photogrammetry and 
Remote Sensing, Vol. 2, pp. 660-669

Kogan, F., 1991.  Remote sensing of weather impacts on vegetation in non-
homogeneous areas.  International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press.

Koomanoff, V. A., 1989.  Analysis of global vegetation patterns:  a compari-
son between remotely sensed data and a conventional map.  Biogeography Re-






search Series, Report #890201, Department of Geography, University of Mary-
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Ohring, G., Gallo, K., Gruber, A., Planet, W., Stowe, L., and Tarpley, J. D., 
1989.  Climate and global change: Characteristics of NOAA satellite data.  
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889,891,894,901.

Peters, A. J., 1989.  Coarse Spatial Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing of 
Drought Conditions in Nebraska:  1985-1988.  PhD Dissertation, Department of 
Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Rosenthal, W. D., Blanchard, B. J., and Blanchard, A. J., 1985. Visible/
infrared/microwave agriculture classification, biomass, and plant height 
algorithms. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, GE-23(2), 84-90.

Rouse, J. W., Hass, R. H., Schell, J. A., Deering, D. W., and Harlan, J. C., 
1974.  Monitoring the Vernal Advancement and Retrogradation (Greenwave Ef-
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Goddard Space Flight Center Final Report.  Greenbelt, Maryland.

Tarpley, J. D., Schneider, S. R., and Money, R. L., 1984.  Global vegetation 
indices from the NOAA-7 meteorological satellite.  Journal of Climate and 
Applied Meteorology.  v. 23, pp. 491-494.

Townshend, J. R. G., Goff, T. E., and Tucker, C. J., 1985.  Multitemporal 
dimensionality of images of normalized difference vegetation index at 
continental scales.  IEEE Transactions, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 23, 
pp. 888-895.

Townshend, J. R. G., Justice, C. O., and Kalb, V. T., 1987.  Characterization 
and classification of South American land cover types using satellite data.  
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Townshend, J. R. G., Justice, C. O., Choudhury, B. J., Tucker, C. J., Kalb, 
V. T., and Goff, T. E., 1989.  A comparison of SMMR and AVHRR data for conti-
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Tucker, C. J., and T. A. Gatlin, 1984. Monitoring vegetation in the Nile
Delta with NOAA-6 and NOAA-7 AVHRR imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and 
Remote Sensing, 50(1), 53-61.

Tucker, C. J., Hielkema, J. U., and Roffey, j., 1985a. The potential of 
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desert-locust activity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 6(1), 127-
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Tucker, C. J., Vanpraet, C. L., Sharman., M. J., and van Ittersum, G., 1985b.
Satellite remote sensing of total herbaceous biomass production in the 
Senegalese Sahel: 1980-1984. Remote Sensing of Environment, 17, 233-249.

Tucker, C. J., Fung, I. Y., Keeling, C. D., and Gammon, R. H., 1986.  
Relationship between atmospheric CO2 variations and a satellite-derived 
vegetation index.  Nature, v. 319, pp. 195-199.







Walsh, S. J., 1987. Comparison of NOAA-AVHRR data to meteorological drought 
indices. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 53(8), 1069-1074.

Wiegand, C. L., Gerbermann, A. H., Gallo, K. P., Blad, B. L., and Dusek, D., 
1990.  Multisite analyses of spectral-biophysical data for corn.  Remote 
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