Integrating fuzzy logic with piecewise linear regression for detecting vegetation greenness change in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4242-4263

  Xue, Yueju ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b,c   Zhang, L ^d   Hu, Yueming ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); COMPUTER CIRCUITS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

HYBRID CHANGE DETECTION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PIECEWISE LINEAR REGRESSION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE DATA; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION GREENNESS; YUKON RIVER BASINS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES; YUKON BASIN;

EID: 84875917352     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.775532     Document Type: Article

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