Glacier Terminus Estimation from Landsat Image Intensity Profiles

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 279-298

  Usset, Joseph ^a   Maity, Arnab ^b   Staicu, Ana Maria ^b   Schwartzman, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change point estimation; Cross validation; Nonparametric regression; Satellite imagery; Spline smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937759972     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-015-0207-4     Document Type: Article

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