Mass data processing of time series Landsat imagery: pixels to data products for forest monitoring

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1035-1054

  Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Hobart, Geordie W ^b   Campbell, Lorraine B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

big data; change; forest; image processing; monitoring; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING; PIXELS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

CHANGE; FOREST; FOREST MONITORING; IMAGE COMPOSITES; LANDSAT ARCHIVES; MASS DATA PROCESSING; OVERALL ACCURACIES; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

DATA HANDLING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DETECTION METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84974716041     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2016.1187673     Document Type: Article

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