An approach for evaluating the impact of gaps and measurement errors on satellite land surface phenology algorithms: Application to 20year NOAA AVHRR data over Canada

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-129

  Kandasamy, Sivasathivel ^a   Fernandes, Richard ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymmetric Gaussian fitting; AVHRR; Inter comparison; Land surface phenology; Logistic fitting; NDVI; Savitzky Golay filter

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SATELLITES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AVHRR; GAUSSIAN FITTING; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; NDVI; SAVITZKY-GOLAY FILTER;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84928668217     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.014     Document Type: Article

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