Impact of sensor degradation on the MODIS NDVI time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-61

  Wang, Dongdong ^a   Morton, Douglas ^b   Masek, Jeffrey ^b   Wu, Aisheng ^c   Nagol, Jyoteshwar ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Levy, Robert ^c   Vermote, Eric ^a   Wolfe, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

MODIS; NDVI; Sensor degradation; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; MODIS; MODIS SENSORS; NDVI; NDVI TIME SERIES; NEGATIVE BIAS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR DEGRADATION; SIMULATED RESULTS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TERRA-MODIS; TREND DETECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGRADATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

RADIOMETERS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLIMATE VARIATION; MODIS; NADIR; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TERRA (SATELLITE); TIME SERIES;

EID: 84862777166     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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