Implementation of the LandTrendr algorithm on Google Earth Engine

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Kennedy, Robert E ^a   Yang, Zhiqiang ^a   Gorelick, Noel ^b   Braaten, Justin ^a   Cavalcante, Lucas ^c   Cohen, Warren B ^d   Healey, Sean ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Cloud computing; Google Earth Engine; Landsat; LandTrendr; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047543232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10050691     Document Type: Note

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