Multitemporal wetland monitoring in sub-Saharan West-Africa using medium resolution optical satellite data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3402-3415

  Moser, Linda ^a   Voigt, Stefan ^a   Schoepfer, Elisabeth ^a   Palmer, Stephanie ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Drought indicators; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS); Monitoring; Sahel; Surface water; Time series; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; WETLANDS;

BURKINA FASO; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; OPTICAL SATELLITES; SAHEL; SUB-SAHARAN; WEST AFRICA;

MONITORING;

DROUGHT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 84907979849     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2336875     Document Type: Article

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