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Using Window Regression to Gap-Fill Landsat ETM+ Post SLC-Off Data

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dc.contributor Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
dc.creator Brooks, Evan B.
dc.creator Wynne, Randolph H.
dc.creator Thomas, Valerie A.
dc.date 2018-10-31T16:58:39Z
dc.date 2018-10-31T16:58:39Z
dc.date 2018-09-20
dc.date 2018-10-31T15:26:33Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:51:12Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:51:12Z
dc.identifier Brooks, E.B.; Wynne, R.H.; Thomas, V.A. Using Window Regression to Gap-Fill Landsat ETM+ Post SLC-Off Data. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1502.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85602
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101502
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281485
dc.description The continued development of algorithms using multitemporal Landsat data creates opportunities to develop and adapt imputation algorithms to improve the quality of that data as part of preprocessing. One example is de-striping Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+, Landsat 7) images acquired after the Scan Line Corrector failure in 2003. In this study, we apply window regression, an algorithm that was originally designed to impute low-quality Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, to Landsat Analysis Ready Data from 2014–2016. We mask Operational Land Imager (OLI; Landsat 8) image stacks from five study areas with corresponding ETM+ missing data layers, using these modified OLI stacks as inputs. We explored the algorithm’s parameter space, particularly window size in the spatial and temporal dimensions. Window regression yielded the best accuracy (and moderately long computation time) with a large spatial radius (a 7 × 7 pixel window) and a moderate temporal radius (here, five layers). In this case, root mean square error for deviations from the observed reflectance ranged from 3.7–7.6% over all study areas, depending on the band. Second-order response surface analysis suggested that a 15 × 15 pixel window, in conjunction with a 9-layer temporal window, may produce the best accuracy. Compared to the neighborhood similar pixel interpolator gap-filling algorithm, window regression yielded slightly better accuracy on average. Because it relies on no ancillary data, window regression may be used to conveniently preprocess stacks for other data-intensive algorithms.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.relation http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50852
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Landsat
dc.subject gap-filling
dc.subject imputation
dc.subject Landsat 7
dc.subject Optimization
dc.title Using Window Regression to Gap-Fill Landsat ETM+ Post SLC-Off Data
dc.title Remote Sensing
dc.type Article - Refereed
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