Unsupervised Land Cover Change Detection: Meaningful Sequential Time Series Analysis

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

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 327-335

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Change detection; clustering; satellite; time series

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; CLUSTERING; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SHORT TERM FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SLIDING WINDOW; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LANDFORMS; METADATA; RADIOMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; LAND COVER; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052339727     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2053918     Document Type: Article

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