Including land cover change in analysis of greenness trends using all available Landsat 5, 7, and 8 images: A case study from Guangzhou, China (2000–2014)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 185, Issue , 2016, Pages 243-257

  Zhu, Zhe ^a   Fu, Yingchun ^b   Woodcock, Curtis E ^c   Olofsson, Pontus ^c   Vogelmann, James E ^a   Holden, Christopher ^c   Wang, Min ^b   Dai, Shu ^b   Yu, Yang ^b  

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

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrupt change; CCDC; Gradual change; Greenness; Guangzhou; Land cover change; Landsat; Time series; Trend

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ECOSYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ABRUPT CHANGE; CCDC; GRADUAL CHANGES; GREENNESS; GUANGZHOU; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; TREND;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AVHRR; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HEAT ISLAND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 84964866565     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.036     Document Type: Article

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