Performance of vegetation indices from Landsat time series in deforestation monitoring

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 318-327

  Schultz, Michael ^a   Clevers, Jan G P W ^a   Carter, Sarah ^a   Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Avitabile, Valerio ^a   Quang, Hien Vu ^b   Herold, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Res Ctr Devmt N Mt of Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; BFAST monitor; Deforestation; Landsat; Time series analysis; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEFORESTATION; LANDSAT; MONITORING; NDVI; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84997701977     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2016.06.020     Document Type: Article

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