Updating Landsat time series of surface-reflectance composites and forest change products with new observations

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 63, Issue , 2017, Pages 104-111

  Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Hobart, Geordie W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change detection; Forest; Image compositing; Landsat; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85032470971     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.07.013     Document Type: Article

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