Temporal trajectories and trend of foliage projective cover (FPC) from Landsat image time series

A Landsat image time series (LITS), defined as a sequence of Landsat images with best possible level of geometric and radiometric consistency and temporal resolution capable of accounting vegetation phenology with observations in every 16 days can be produced using available Landsat scenes and MODIS reflectance.

A time series of foliage projective cover (FPC) can be derived from the LITS and used to examine the temporal trajectories and long term trend of FPC in different vegetation communities.

Change in foliage projective cover in Barakula state forest area in different months of 2004 as derived from LITS.

time series examples

References

Santosh Prasad Bhandari, Stuart Phinn and Tony Gill (in preparation): preparing Landsat image time series for monitoring change, vegetation phenology and disturbance in Queensland

Santosh Prasad Bhandari, Stuart Phinn and Tony Gill (in preparation): Monitoring temporal trajectories and trend of foliage projective cover (FPC) in forest communities using Landsat image time series in Queensland

GAO, F., MASEK, J., SCHWALLER, M., and HALL, F., 2006, On the blending of the Landsat and MODIS surface reflectance: predicting daily Landsat surface reflectance. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44, pp. 2207-2218

Armston, J. D., R. J. Denham, et al. (2009). "Prediction and validation of foliage projective cover from Landsat-5 TM and Landsat-7 ETM+ imagery." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 3