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Biblioteca Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges

Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges

Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges

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Date of publication
Dezembro 2012
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201400184185
Pages
373-397

The compilation of global Landsat data-sets and the ever-lowering costs of computing now make it feasible to monitor the Earth's land cover at Landsat resolutions of 30 m. In this article, we describe the methods to create global products of forest cover and cover change at Landsat resolutions. Nevertheless, there are many challenges in ensuring the creation of high-quality products. And we propose various ways in which the challenges can be overcome. Among the challenges are the need for atmospheric correction, incorrect calibration coefficients in some of the data-sets, the different phenologies between compilations, the need for terrain correction, the lack of consistent reference data for training and accuracy assessment, and the need for highly automated characterization and change detection. We propose and evaluate the creation and use of surface reflectance products, improved selection of scenes to reduce phenological differences, terrain illumination correction, automated training selection, and the use of information extraction procedures robust to errors in training data along with several other issues. At several stages we use Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer data and products to assist our analysis. A global working prototype product of forest cover and forest cover change is included.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Townshend, John R.
Masek, Jeffrey G.
Huang, Chengquan
Vermote, Eric F.
Gao, Feng
Channan, Saurabh
Sexton, Joseph O.
Feng, Min
Narasimhan, Raghuram
Kim, Dohyung
Song, Kuan
Song, Danxia
Song, Xiao-Peng
Noojipady, Praveen
Tan, Bin
Hansen, Matthew C.
Li, Mengxue
Wolfe, Robert E.

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