Applying object-based segmentation in the temporal domain to characterise snow seasonality

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 98-110

  Thompson, Jeffery A ^a   Lees, Brian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpine; Australia; MODIS; Object based image analysis; Seasonality; Snow cover; Time series

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALPINE; AUSTRALIA; MODIS; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALITY; SEGMENTATION; SNOW COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84907181671     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.08.010     Document Type: Article

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