Development and assessment of a 250m spatial resolution MODIS annual land cover time series (2000-2011) for the forest region of Canada derived from change-based updating

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 731-743

  Pouliot, Darren ^a   Latifovic, Rasim ^a   Zabcic, Natalie ^a   Guindon, Luc ^b   Olthof, Ian ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Boreal; Change detection; Land cover; MODIS; Time series

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BOREAL; CHANGE DETECTION; LAND COVER; MODIS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RADIOMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

TIME SERIES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; TIME SERIES;

CANADA;

EID: 84887137779     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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