Submitted:
01 June 2017
Posted:
02 June 2017
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Abstract
The processing of cloud free geo-referenced imagery is one of the preliminary processing step of any land application. This letter describe the methodology developed to obtain a seamless cloud free composite of Africa for 2016 using Sentinel-2A data at 10 meters resolution freely available from the European Space Agency. The method is based on an hybrid method resulting from the merging of the two most robust time series methods namely the "darkest pixel" and the "maximum NDVI" previously developed with AVHRR time series.
Keywords:
Sentinel-2
; remote sensing
; European Space Agency
; Copernicus
; continental
; cloud-free
; composite
; darkest pixel
; maximum NDVI
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