Land transitions from multivariate time series: Using seasonal trend analysis and segmentation to detect land-cover changes

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 671-692

  Parmentier, Benoit ^a,b   Eastman, J Ronald ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES;

DETECTION PROCESS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION; MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOUR;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893014685     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.871595     Document Type: Article

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