Journal
ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 116, Issue -, Pages 55-72Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.03.008
Keywords
Remote sensing; Landsat; Sentinel 2; Monitoring; Composite; Change detection; Mapping; Large area
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- Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Government Related Initiatives Program (GRIP)
- Canadian Forest Service (CFS) of Natural Resources Canada
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Accurate land cover information is required for science, monitoring, and reporting. Land cover changes naturally over time, as well as a result of anthropogenic activities. Monitoring and mapping of land cover and land cover change in a consistent and robust manner over large areas is made possible with Earth Observation (EO) data. Land cover products satisfying a range of science and policy information needs are currently produced periodically at different spatial and temporal scales. The increased availability of EO data-particularly from the Landsat archive (and soon to be augmented with Sentinel-2 data)-coupled with improved computing and storage capacity with novel image compositing approaches, have resulted in the availability of annual, large-area, gap-free, surface reflectance data products. In turn, these data products support the development of annual land cover products that can be both informed and constrained by change detection outputs. The inclusion of time series change in the land cover mapping process provides information on class stability and informs on logical class transitions (both temporally and categorically). In this review, we present the issues and opportunities associated with generating and validating time-series informed annual, large-area, land cover products, and identify methods suited to incorporating time series information and other novel inputs for land cover characterization. Crown Copyright (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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