Characterization of land transitions patterns from multivariate time series using seasonal trend analysis and principal component analysis

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12639-12665

  Parmentier, Benoit ^a,b,c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Albedo; Burned areas; Fire; Land cover change; Mann Kendall; NDVI; Temporal patterns; Windowed Fourier transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920086878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212639     Document Type: Article

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