Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 58, Issue 7, Pages 5179-5194Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2973762
Keywords
Earth; Artificial satellites; Remote sensing; MODIS; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Data integration; Spatial resolution; Landsat normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); MODIS-Landsat; NDVI time series; spatiotemporal fusion; VIIRS NDVI
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Funding
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA19070304]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41601381]
- Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program [2019QZKK0106, 2019QZKK0307]
- Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China
- CEReS Overseas Joint Research Program 2018 [CI18-101]
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Spatiotemporal data fusion is a methodology to generate images with both high spatial and temporal resolution. Most spatiotemporal data fusion methods generate the fused image at a prediction date based on pairs of input images from other dates. The performance of spatiotemporal data fusion is greatly affected by the selection of the input image pair. There are two criteria for selecting the input image pair: the similarity criterion, in which the image at the base date should be as similar as possible to that at the prediction date, and the consistency criterion, in which the coarse and fine images at the base date should be consistent in terms of their radiometric characteristics and imaging geometry. Unfortunately, the consistency criterion has not been quantitatively considered by previous selection strategies. We thus develop a novel method (called cross-fusion) to address the issue of the determination of the base image pair. The new method first chooses several candidate input image pairs according to the similarity criterion and then takes the consistency criterion into account by employing all of the candidate input image pairs to implement spatiotemporal data fusion between them. We applied the new method to MODIS-Landsat Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data fusion. The results show that the cross-fusion method performs better than four other selection strategies, with lower average absolute difference (AAD) values and higher correlation coefficients in various vegetated regions including a deciduous forest in Northeast China, an evergreen forest in South China, cropland in North China Plain, and grassland in the Tibetan Plateau. We simulated scenarios for the inconsistency between MODIS and Landsat data and found that the simulated inconsistency is successfully quantified by the new method. In addition, the cross-fusion method is less affected by cloud omission errors. The fused NDVI time-series data generated by the new method tracked various vegetation growth trajectories better than previous selection strategies. We expect that the cross-fusion method can advance practical applications of spatiotemporal data fusion technology.
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