Effective compositing method to produce cloud-free AVHRR image

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 328-332

  Wang, Lingxiao ^a,b   Xiao, Pengfeng ^a   Feng, Xuezhi ^a   Li, Haixing ^a   Zhang, Wenbo ^a   Lin, Jintang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); cloud effects; compositing method; compositing period

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD EFFECTS; COMPOSITING; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER TYPES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TEMPORAL PROFILE;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR);

PIXELS;

EID: 84888297173     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2257672     Document Type: Article

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