Noise reduction and gap filling of fAPAR time series using an adapted local regression filter

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8238-8260

  Moreno, Álvaro ^a   García Haro, Francisco Javier ^a   Martínez, Beatriz ^a   Gilabert, María Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

fAPAR; Filtering; Interpolation; LOESS; MODIS; Noise; Time series

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; TIME SERIES;

FAPAR; GAP FILLING; LOCAL REGRESSION; LOESS; MODIS; NOISE;

FILTRATION;

EID: 84907459254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098238     Document Type: Article

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