Fusing Landsat and SAR time series to detect deforestation in the tropics

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 276-293

  Reiche, Johannes ^a   Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Hoekman, Dirk ^a   Herold, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Change detection; Deforestation; Landsat; Multi sensor data fusion; MulTiFuse; Sensor interoperability; Time series

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA STREAMS; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PIXELS; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TROPICS;

ALOS PALSAR; CHANGE DETECTION; LANDSAT; MULTIFUSE; MULTISENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR INTEROPERABILITY;

TIME SERIES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEFORESTATION; LANDSAT; NDVI; PALSAR; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

DATA; DEFORESTATION; MONITORING; TROPICS;

EID: 84908320410     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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