Detecting temporal changes in the extent of annual flooding within the Cambodia and the Vietnamese Mekong Delta from MODIS time-series imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-313

  Sakamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Van Nguyen, Nhan ^b   Kotera, Akihiko ^a   Ohno, Hiroyuki ^a   Ishitsuka, Naoki ^a   Yokozawa, Masayuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Sub National Institute for Agricultural Projection and Planning   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

EVI; LSWI; MODIS; Time series analysis; WFCP

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX (EVI); LAND SURFACE WATER INDEX (LSWI); MODIS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; WFCP;

FLOODS;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODING; MODIS; RADARSAT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 34250303986     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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