Land cover classification based on fused data from GF-1 and MODIS NDVI time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Kong, Fanjie ^a   Li, Xiaobing ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   Xie, Dengfeng ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Bai, Yunxiao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Classification; Land cover; NDVI; Phenology; STARFM; SVM; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PHENOLOGY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; STARFM;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 85019670935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090741     Document Type: Article

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