Comparison of eight techniques for reconstructing multi-satellite sensor time-series NDVI data sets in the heihe river basin, China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2024-2049

  Geng, Liying ^a,b   Ma, Mingguo ^a   Wang, Xufeng ^a   Yu, Wenping ^a,b   Jia, Shuzhen ^a,b   Wang, Haibo ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

AVHRR; GIMMS; MODIS; NDVI; Noise reduction; PAL; Reconstruction techniques; SPOT VGT

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NOISE ABATEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

AVHRR; GIMMS; MODIS; NDVI; PAL; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SPOT VGT;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84896958551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032024     Document Type: Article

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