LandTrendr

Landsat-based Detection of Trends in Disturbance and Recovery

A data reduction algorithm that identifies the dominate components in noisy satellite image time series.

Landsat sensors collect reflected radiation, which is translated into image data

...but depending on atmosphere, phenology, and sun angle images can be brighter, or darker,

As such, a given image pixel's spectral-temporal profile can be quite variable.

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