Learning-Based Spatial-Temporal Superresolution Mapping of Forest Cover with MODIS Images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 600-614

  Zhang, Yihang ^a,b,c   Atkinson, Peter M ^c   Li, Xiaodong ^a   Ling, Feng ^a   Wang, Qunming ^c   Du, Yun ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downscaling; forest map; MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); nonlinear spectral unmixing; remote sensing; spatial temporal; superresolution mapping; Tree cover

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMAPPING; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS;

DOWN-SCALING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPECTRAL UNMIXING; SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPINGS; TREE COVER;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CARBON FLUX; DOWNSCALING; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84991030117     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2613140     Document Type: Article

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