Virtual constellations for global terrestrial monitoring

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-76

  Wulder, Michael A ^a   Hilker, Thomas ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^c   Masek, Jeffrey G ^d   Pflugmacher, Dirk ^e   Crevier, Yves ^f  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constellation; Land cover; Land use; Landsat; Monitoring; Satellite; Science; Sentinel 2

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE; MONITORING; OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SPACE OPTICS;

CONSTELLATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; SCIENCE; SENTINEL-2;

REMOTE SENSING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SENTINEL;

EID: 84942111632     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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