Comparisons of compositing period length for vegetation index data from polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites for the cloud-prone region of West Africa

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-309

  Fensholt, Rasmus ^a   Ayamba, Assaf ^b   Stisen, Simon ^a   Sandholt, Inge ^a   Pak, Ed ^b   Small, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL RESOURCES; PROBABILITY;

LAND SURFACE DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI) DATA; POLAR ORBITING ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE (POES) DATA; VEGETATION INDEX DATA;

VEGETATION;

BIOMONITORING; CLOUD COVER; DATA QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; METEOSAT; MODIS; NDVI; PIXEL;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33847231639     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.73.3.297     Document Type: Review

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