Version finale du manuscrit publié dans / Final version of the manuscript published in : Manuscrit d’auteur / Author manuscript Manuscrit d’auteur / Author manuscript Manuscrit d’auteur / Author manuscript Remote Sensing of Environment, 2008, vol 122, no.1, 216-230 Multivariate Quantification of Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity using Variogram Models Garrigues, S. 1 , Allard, D. 2 , Baret, F. 3 , Morisette, J. 4 1 : University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD Mailing address : NASA GSFC, Mail Code 614.4, Greenbelt MD, 20771 Phone : 301 6146646 Email address :Sebastien.garrigues@gsfc.nasa.gov 2 : Biostatistic & Spatial Processes Unit, INRA, Avignon, France 3 : UMR1114, INRA, Avignon, France 4 :NASA’s GSFC, Mail Code 614.5, Greenbelt, MD, USA Submitted for Remote Sensing of Environment Index terms: spatial heterogeneity, spatial structure, length scale, moderate spatial resolution, landscape, multivariate variogram model, red and near infrared reflectances, NDVI, stationarity.