== ACKNOWLEDGMENT ==

The GIMMS Global Agricultural Monitoring system is funded through an
interagency agreement grant between USDA/FAS/OGA and NASA/GSFC.

We request users of data products obtained herein to include a general
statement crediting the NASA/GSFC GIMMS Group and the USDA Foreign Agricultural
Service in written articles or presentations.

For example,

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index (NDVI) used in this study was processed and produced by the
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center’s Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping
Studies (GIMMS) Group through funding support of the Global Agricultural
Monitoring project by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).