Storm damage assessment support service in the U.S. corn belt using RapidEye satellite imagery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7472, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Capellades, Maria A ^a   Reigber, Sandra ^a   Kunze, Marika ^a  

^a RapidEye AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop damage assessment; Operational service; RapidEye; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; CROP DAMAGES; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; DAMAGE CLASS; FIELD CLASSIFICATION; HIGH COSTS; LAND COVER; OPERATIONAL SERVICE; PRE-PROCESSING; RAPIDEYE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE SYSTEM; SIX-STEP PROCESS; SOYBEAN FIELDS; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTORS; STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; TIME FRAME; TIME WINDOWS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; CROPS; HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; VEGETATION; WATER;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 70449458072     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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