Nonparametric detection of cloudy pixels in a VHRR NDVI data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1037-1040

  Anantharaj, Valentine G ^a   Younan, Nicolas H ^a   King, Roger L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Clouds; NDVI; Nonparameteric detection; Signed rank; Vegetation; Wilcoxon

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); CLOUDY PIXELS; NOMPARAMETERIC DETECTION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); SIGNED RANK; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST;

RADIOMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 15944416189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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