The availability of cloud-free Landsat ETM+ data over the conterminous United States and globally

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1196-1211

  Ju, Junchang ^a   Roy, David P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition strategy; Cloud cover; Landsat; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DATA ACQUISITION; METADATA; REMOTE SENSING; WAVELENGTH;

ACQUISITION STRATEGY; CLOUD COVER; LANDSAT;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; DATA ACQUISITION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39749112645     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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