Perspectives on monitoring gradual change across the continuity of Landsat sensors using time-series data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 185, Issue , 2016, Pages 258-270

  Vogelmann, James E ^a   Gallant, Alisa L ^a   Shi, Hua ^a   Zhu, Zhe ^a  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous change detection; ETM+; Gradual change; Landsat data continuity; Time series; TM; OLI

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; THULIUM; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; ATMOSPHERIC IMPACT; CHANGE DETECTION; DATA CONTINUITY; GRADUAL CHANGES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG TERM MONITORING; OLI;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE; MONITORING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84959876983     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.060     Document Type: Article

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