Alerts of forest disturbance from MODIS imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Hammer, Dan ^a   Kraft, Robin ^a   Wheeler, David ^a  

^a WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Deforestation; MODIS; Parallel processing; Time series

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODIS; PIXEL; TIME SERIES;

BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL];

EID: 84904765099     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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