Two decades of global annual fractional vegetation cover products have been derived using daily surface reflectance and land temperature data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite. These MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) are unique a distinct advance over discrete (ordinal) characterizations. VCF consists three continuous ...

A representation of su q (n) , which diverges in the limit of q → 1, is investigated. This is an infinite dimensional and a non-unitary representation , defined for the real value of q, 0 < q < 1. Each irreducible representation is specified by n continuous variables and one discrete variable. This representation gives a new solution of the Yang-Baxter equation, when the R-matrix is evaluated. ...