Thompson, D.R., and J.R. Jensen. Dornheim, M.A. 1991. Land and Ice Temporal coherence contains information on the stability of the surface and therefore on the type of land surface. At one extreme, open water is completely incoherent over the timescale of a satellite revisit. Various types of vegetation have intermediate coherence levels which depends on their sensitivity to wind and growth characteristics.
Bare ground can exhibit very high coherence.
The temporal pattern of the coherence can reflect agricultural practices as well as natural growth cycles in vegetation. Askne, J., and J.O. Hagver. 1993. Abstract Li, S., C. Benson, L. Shapiro, and K. Dean.