Generation of a novel 1km NDVI data set over Canada, the northern United States, and Greenland based on historical AVHRR data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-185

  Fontana, Fabio M A ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Khlopenkov, Konstantin V ^b   Trishchenko, Alexander P ^c,f   Riffler, Michael ^d   Wulder, Michael A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

BRDF correction; Historical AVHRR data; NDVI; Time series; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

AIR PRESSURES; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; BACKWARD SCATTERING; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; BROADLEAF FOREST; CONTINENTAL SCALE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS; ECOREGIONS; FLUXNET; GEOLOCATIONS; GREENLAND; HISTORICAL AVHRR DATA; IMAGE NAVIGATION; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; LOCAL SCALE; LONG-TERM CHANGES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NDVI; NDVI DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; ORTHO-RECTIFICATION; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; PROCESSING APPROACH; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH NETWORKS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; SPECTRAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORWARD SCATTERING; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AVHRR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND COVER; MODIS; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER VAPOR;

ARCTIC; CANADA; GREENLAND;

EID: 84857668275     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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