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Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 160-179; doi:10.3390/rs4010160 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Scaling Effect of Area-Averaged NDVI: Monotonicity along the Spatial Resolution Kenta Obata , Takahiro Wada ,, Tomoaki Miura and Hiroki Yoshioka ,⋆ Department of Information Science and Technology, Aichi Prefectural University, 1522-3 Kumabari, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1198, Japan; E-Mail: kenta.obata@cis.aichi-pu.ac.jp CORE Corporation (Nagoya), 8F, NORE Fushimi Build., Nishiki, Naka-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi 440-0003, Japan; E-Mail: kerutorosu@yahoo.co.jp Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1910 East West Road, Sherman 101, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA; E-Mail: tomoakim@ ⋆ Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: yoshioka@ist.aichi-pu.ac.jp; Tel.: +81-561-64-1111. Received: 2 December 2011; in revised form: 4 January 2012 / Accepted: 5 January 2012 / Published: 10 January 2012 Abstract: Changes in the spatial distributions of vegetation across the globe are routinely monitored by satellite remote sensing, in which the reflectance spectra over land surface areas are measured with spatial and temporal resolutions that depend on the satellite instrumentation. The use of multiple synchronized satellite sensors permits long-term monitoring with high spatial and temporal resolutions. However, differences in the spatial resolution of images collected by different sensors can introduce systematic biases, called scaling effects, into the