NDVI	Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
MFDFA	multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis
FS	Fisher-Shannon
VIIRS	Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
Suomi-NPP	Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership
MODIS	Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
EOS	Earth Observing System
VI	vegetation indices
ROI	region of interest
DFA	Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
FIM	Fisher Information Measure
SE	Shannon entropy
NX	Shannon entropy power
BRDF	bidirectional reflectance distribution function
SDS	science data sets
NDVId	departure NDVI
PG&E	Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
IGBP	International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
hq	Generalized Hurst exponents
hq-range	range of the generalized Hurst exponent
FGN	Fractional Gaussian Noise