Improved classification of conservation tillage adoption using high temporal and synthetic satellite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-75

  Watts, Jennifer D ^a   Powell, Scott L ^b   Lawrence, Rick L ^b   Hilker, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Landsat; MODIS; Random Forest; STARFM; Tillage

Indexed keywords

LANDSAT; MODIS; RANDOM FOREST; STARFM; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORESTRY MODELING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958096283     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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