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However, its availability and usability are largely constrained by its low revisit frequency. On the other hand, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) images for land studies have much more frequent coverage but with a lower spatial resolution of 250\u2013500 m. To take advantages of the two sensors and expand their availability and usability, during the last decade, a number of image fusion methods have been developed for generating Landsat-like images from MODIS observations to supplement clear-sky Landsat imagery. However, available methods are typically effective or applicable for certain applications. For a better result, a new Prediction Smooth Reflectance Fusion Model (PSRFM) for blending Landsat and MODIS images is proposed. PSRFM consists of a dynamic prediction model and a smoothing filter. The dynamic prediction model generates synthetic Landsat images from a pair of Landsat and MODIS images and another MODIS image, either forward or backward in time. The smoothing filter combines the forward and backward predictions by weighted average based on elapsed time or on the estimated prediction uncertainty. Optionally, the smooth filtering can be applied with constraints based on Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) or Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). In comparison to some published reflectance fusion methods, PSRFM shows the following desirable characteristics: (1) it can deal with one pair or two pairs of Landsat and MODIS images; (2) it can incorporate input image uncertainty during prediction and estimate prediction uncertainty; (3) it can track gradual vegetation phenological changes and deal with abrupt land-cover type changes; and (4) for predictions using two pairs of input images, the results can be further improved through the constrained smoothing filter based on NDSI or NDVI for certain applications. We tested PSRFM to generate a Landsat-like image time series by using Landsat 8 OLI and MODIS (MOD09GA) images and compared it to two reflectance fusion algorithms: STARFM (Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model) and ESTARFM (Enhanced version of STARFM). The results show that the proposed PSRFM is effective and outperforms STARFM and ESTARFM both visually and quantitatively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10091371","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,30]],"date-time":"2018-08-30T02:49:34Z","timestamp":1535597374000},"page":"1371","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["A Prediction Smooth Method for Blending Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imagine Spectroradiometer Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Detang","family":"Zhong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada, 6th floor, 560 Rochester Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 5K2, Canada"}]},{"given":"Fuqun","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada, 6th floor, 560 Rochester Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 5K2, Canada"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,29]]},"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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