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ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 106-118Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.10.001
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Gap-filling; MODIS; EVI; LST; Africa
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Funding
- UK Medical Research Council (MRC) [K00669X]
- UK Department for International Development (DFID) under the MRC/DFID [K00669X]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1068048]
- MRC [MR/K00669X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/K00669X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1068048] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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The archives of imagery and modeled data products derived from remote sensing programs with high temporal resolution provide powerful resources for characterizing inter- and intra-annual environmental dynamics. The impressive depth of available time-series from such missions (e.g., MODIS and AVHRR) affords new opportunities for improving data usability by leveraging spatial and temporal information inherent to longitudinal geospatial datasets. In this research we develop an approach for filling gaps in imagery time-series that result primarily from cloud cover, which is particularly problematic in forested equatorial regions. Our approach consists of two, complementary gap-filling algorithms and a variety of run-time options that allow users to balance competing demands of model accuracy and processing time. We applied the gap-filling methodology to MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and daytime and nighttime Land Surface Temperature (LST) datasets for the African continent for 2000-2012, with a 1 km spatial resolution, and an 8-day temporal resolution. We validated the method by introducing and filling artificial gaps, and then comparing the original data with model predictions. Our approach achieved R-2 values above 0.87 even for pixels within 500 km wide introduced gaps. Furthermore, the structure of our approach allows estimation of the error associated with each gap-filled pixel based on the distance to the non-gap pixels used to model its fill value, thus providing a mechanism for including uncertainty associated with the gap-filling process in downstream applications of the resulting datasets. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS).
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