An assessment of three candidate compositing methods for global MERIS time series

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 492-502

  Vancutsem, C ^a   Bicheron, P ^b   Cayrol, P ^c   Defourny, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CNES   (France)

^c Parc de la Plaine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BEST INDEX SLOPE EXTRACTION (BISE); GLOBAL TIME SERIES; MEAN COMPOSITING (MC); MEDIUM-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MERIS);

COMPOSTING;

EID: 42949156684     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m07-056     Document Type: Article

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