Improving the Spatial Resolution of Land Surface Phenology by Fusing Medium- and Coarse-Resolution Inputs

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4153-4164

  Frantz, David ^a   Stellmes, Marion ^a   Röder, Achim ^a   Udelhoven, Thomas ^a   Mader, Sebastian ^a   Hill, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Landsat; MODIS; phenology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; REFLECTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; CENTER-PIVOT IRRIGATION; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION; SPECTRAL DISTANCES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

PIXELS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; MODIS; NOISE; PHENOLOGY; PIXEL; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84981762374     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2537929     Document Type: Article

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