A national knowledge-based crop recognition in Mediterranean environment

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-87

  Cohen, Yafit ^a,b   Shoshany, Maxim ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agriculture; GIS; Integration; Knowledge based rules; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPOT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0242488414     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2434(02)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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