Improving land cover class separation using an extended kalman filter on MODIS NDVI time-series data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 381-385

  Kleynhans, Waldo ^a,b   Olivier, Jan Corne ^a,b   Wessels, Konrad J ^b   Van Den Bergh, Frans ^b   Salmon, Brian P ^a,b   Steenkamp, Karen C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Discrete Fourier transforms; Kalman filtering

Indexed keywords

CLASS SEPARATION; COSINE FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION OF TIME; KALMAN-FILTERING; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; NATURAL VEGETATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES; SOUTH AFRICA; STUDY AREAS; TIME-SERIES DATA;

BLOCK CODES; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; LANDFORMS; POSITION CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 77951208550     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2036578     Document Type: Article

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