Radiometric quality and performance of TIMESAT for smoothing moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer enhanced vegetation index time series from western Bahia State, Brazil

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Borges, Elane F ^a,b   Sano, Edson E ^a,c   Medrado, Euzébio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Graybill; pixel reliability; remote sensing; vegetation cover; Willmott

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE; PIXELS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GRAYBILL; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; VEGETATION COVER; WILLMOTT;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84905750183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083580     Document Type: Article

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