A Simple Transformation for Visualizing Non-seasonal Landscape Change from Dense Time Series of Satellite Data

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

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3372-3383

  Hird, Jennifer N ^a   Castilla, Guillermo ^a,b   McDermid, Greg J ^a   Bueno, Inacio T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Change detection; image classification; image transformation; landscape dynamics; landscape trends; MODIS; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); remote sensing; time series; urban expansion

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; METADATA; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; ALBERTA , CANADA; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE DIFFERENCING; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; SATELLITE VEGETATION;

TIME SERIES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES; TRANSFORM; URBAN AREA; VISUALIZATION;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA;

EID: 84928312585     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2419594     Document Type: Article

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