Generating historical AVHRR 1 km baseline satellite data records over Canada suitable for climate change studies

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 324-346

  Latifovic, Rasim ^a   Trishchenko, Alexander P ^a   Chen, Ji ^b   Park, William B ^a   Khlopenkov, Konstantin V ^a   Fernandes, Richard ^a   Pouliot, Darren ^b   Ungureanu, Calin ^b   Luo, Yi ^b   Wang, Shusen ^a   Davidson, Andrew ^a   Cihlar, Josef ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b Noetix Research Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE MONITORING; EARTH OBSERVATION (EO); SATELLITE DATA RECORDS;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 30644475278     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m05-024     Document Type: Article

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