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In this study, an unmixing-based method, NDVI Linear Mixing Growth Model (NDVI-LMGM), is proposed to achieve the goal of accurately and efficiently blending MODIS NDVI time-series data and multi-temporal Landsat TM\/ETM+ images. This method firstly unmixes the NDVI temporal changes in MODIS time-series to different land cover types and then uses unmixed NDVI temporal changes to predict Landsat-like NDVI dataset. The test over a forest site shows high accuracy (average difference: \u22120.0070; average absolute difference: 0.0228; and average absolute relative difference: 4.02%) and computation efficiency of NDVI-LMGM (31 seconds using a personal computer). Experiments over more complex landscape and long-term time-series demonstrated that NDVI-LMGM performs well in each stage of vegetation growing season and is robust in regions with contrasting spatial and spatial variations. Comparisons between NDVI-LMGM and current methods (i.e., Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model (STARFM), Enhanced STARFM (ESTARFM) and Weighted Linear Model (WLM)) show that NDVI-LMGM is more accurate and efficient than current methods. The proposed method will benefit land surface process research, which requires a dense NDVI time-series dataset with high spatial resolution.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70607865","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,6,16]],"date-time":"2015-06-16T10:28:09Z","timestamp":1434450489000},"page":"7865-7891","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":119,"title":["An Improved Method for Producing High Spatial-Resolution NDVI Time Series Datasets with Multi-Temporal MODIS NDVI Data and Landsat TM\/ETM+ Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Yuhan","family":"Rao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,  Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaolin","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, NESB 108, 1499 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA"}]},{"given":"Jin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,  Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Jianmin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,  Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,6,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Rouse, J., Haas, R., Schell, J., and Deering, D. 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