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First, a mapping is established between two MODIS images, where one is at an earlier time, t1, and the other one is at the time of prediction, tp. Second, this mapping is applied to map a known Landsat image at t1 to generate a predicted Landsat image at tp. Similar to the Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model (STARFM), SpatioTemporal Image-Fusion Model (STI-FM), and the Flexible Spatiotemporal DAta Fusion (FSDAF) approaches, only one pair of MODIS and Landsat images is needed for prediction. Using seven performance metrics, experiments involving actual Landsat and MODIS images demonstrated that the proposed approach achieves comparable or better fusion performance than that of STARFM, STI-FM, and FSDAF.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10040520","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,26]],"date-time":"2018-03-26T12:08:25Z","timestamp":1522066105000},"page":"520","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":51,"title":["A Hybrid Color Mapping Approach to Fusing MODIS and Landsat Images for Forward Prediction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4341-0769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chiman","family":"Kwan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Signal Processing, Inc., Rockville, MD 20850, USA"}]},{"given":"Bence","family":"Budavari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Signal Processing, Inc., Rockville, MD 20850, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1865-2846","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feng","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD20704 USA"}]},{"given":"Xiaolin","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2207","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2006.872081","article-title":"On the blending of the Landsat and MODIS surface reflectance: Predicting daily Landsat surface reflectance","volume":"44","author":"Gao","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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