Detecting long-duration cloud contamination in hyper-temporal NDVI imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-31

  Ali, Amjad ^a,b   de Bie, C A J M ^a   Skidmore, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cloud; Contamination; Hyper temporal; Mapping; MODIS; NDVI

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLOUD COVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRA (SATELLITE);

EID: 84880120726     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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