Spatio-temporal sensitivity of MODIS land surface temperature anomalies indicates high potential for large-scale land cover change detection in Arctic permafrost landscapes

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 168, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-12

  Muster, S ^a   Langer, M ^a   Abnizova, A ^b   Young, K L ^b   Boike, J ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Albedo; Anomaly; Canadian High Arctic; Change detection; Land cover; Land surface temperature; LST; MODIS; Monitoring; Permafrost; Polar desert; Remote sensing; Surface energy balance; Surface soil moisture; Topography; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY BALANCE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LANDFORMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONITORING; PERMAFROST; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACKING RADAR;

ALBEDO; ANOMALY; CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC; CHANGE DETECTION; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LST; MODIS; POLAR DESERTS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TUNDRA;

WETTING;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ENERGY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TOPOGRAPHY; TUNDRA;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84947233395     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.06.017     Document Type: Article

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