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Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 1856-1886; doi:10.3390/rs4061856 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Preparing Landsat Image Time Series (LITS) for Monitoring Changes in Vegetation Phenology in Queensland, Australia Santosh Bhandari 1,2*, Stuart Phinn 1 and Tony Gill 3 1 Biophysical Remote Sensing Group, Centre for Spatial Environmental Research, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; E-Mail: s.phinn@.au 2 Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd, 55 Shortland St, PO Box 105039, Auckland , 1143, New Zealand 3 Remote Sensing Centre, Remote Sensing Unit, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, P.O. Box 717, Dubbo, NSW 2830, Australia; E-Mail: tony.gill@.au * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: santosh.bhandari@; Tel.: +64-9-281-4764; Fax: +64-9-281-4769. Received: 12 May 2012; in revised form: 12 June 2012 / Accepted : 15 June 2012 / Published: 19 June 2012 Abstract: Time series of images are required to extract and separate information on vegetation change due to phenological cycles, inter-annual climatic variability, and long-term trends. While images from the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor have the spatial and spectral characteristics suited for mapping a range of vegetation structural and compositional properties, its 16-day revisit period combined with cloud cover problems and seasonally limited latitudinal range, limit the availability o