From imagery to ecology: leveraging time series of all available Landsat observations to map and monitor ecosystem state and dynamics

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 152-170

  Pasquarella, Valerie J ^a   Holden, Christopher E ^a   Kaufman, Les ^b,c   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem dynamics; ecosystem structure; land cover; Landsat; time series; vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018501099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.24     Document Type: Article

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