Seasonal composite landsat TM/ETM+ Images using the medoid (a multi-dimensional median)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6481-6500

  Flood, Neil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image composite; Landsat; Medoid; Seasonal

Indexed keywords

IMAGE COMPOSITES; LANDSAT; MEDOID; REFLECTANCE IMAGES; REFLECTANCE VALUES; SEASONAL; TEMPORAL IMAGES; VEGETATION MONITORING;

PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84891461649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5126481     Document Type: Article

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