Extracting information about vegetation seasons in Africa from pathfinder AVHRR NDVI imagery using temporal filtering and least-squares fits to asymmetric Gaussian functions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4885, Issue , 2002, Pages 215-225

  Eklundh, Lars ^a   Jönsson, Per ^a,b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AVHRR NDVI; Gaussian functions; Seasonality; Temporal filtering; Time series

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; CURVE FITTING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL FILTERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037951423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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