Phenology-adaptive pixel-based compositing using optical earth observation imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 190, Issue , 2017, Pages 331-347

  Frantz, David ^a   Röder, Achim ^a   Stellmes, Marion ^a,b   Hill, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image processing; Landsat; Large area monitoring; MODIS; Phenological normalization; Zambia

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

AREA MONITORING; LANDSAT; MODIS; PHENOLOGICAL NORMALIZATION; ZAMBIA;

BIOLOGY;

ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EOS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOLOGY; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENESCENCE; TIME SERIES; TREE;

ZAMBIA;

EID: 85009290530     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.002     Document Type: Article

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