Continuous monitoring of land change activities and post-disturbance dynamics from Landsat time series: A test methodology for REDD+ reporting

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 238, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Arévalo, Paulo ^a   Olofsson, Pontus ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colombian Amazon; Deforestation; Estimation; IPCC; Land cover; Landsat; Time series

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ESTIMATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; TIME SERIES;

COLOMBIANS; GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; IPCC; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; POST DISTURBANCE DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; EMISSION CONTROL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; METHODOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SECONDARY FOREST; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMAZON RIVER; COLOMBIA;

EID: 85060594037     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.01.013     Document Type: Article

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