Exploring Relationships between Rainfall and Vegetation Dynamics in the Sahel Using Coarse Resolution Satellite Data
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This research investigates temporal and spatial patterns of vegetation greenness and explores relationships between rainfall and vegetation dynamics in the Sahel, based on analyses of NDVI time series and gridded precipitation estimates at different spatial resolutions.
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