A kalman filter-based method to generate continuous time series of medium-resolution NDVI images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12381-12408

  Sedano, Fernando ^a,b   Kempeneers, Pieter ^c   Hurtt, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Filtering; Kalman filter; Landsat; MODIS; Monitoring; Smoothing; Time series; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920103576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212381     Document Type: Article

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