Development and Application of Multi-Temporal Colorimetric Transformation to Monitor Vegetation in the Desert Locust Habitat

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-326

  Pekel, Jean François ^a   Vanbogaert, Eric ^a   Defourny, Pierre ^a   Ceccato, Pietro ^b   Vancutsem, Christelle ^b   Cressman, Keith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Lamont Campus   (United States)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Color space; Desert Locust; dynamic map; early warning; HSV; MODIS; real time monitoring; SPOT VEGETATION; vegetation monitoring

Indexed keywords

COLOR SPACE; DESERT LOCUST; DYNAMIC MAP; EARLY WARNING; HSV; MODIS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SPOT VEGETATION; VEGETATION MONITORING;

COLOR; FORESTRY; INFORMATION SERVICES; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE;

VEGETATION;

COLORIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCUST; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 80052306549     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2052591     Document Type: Article

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