Detecting spatiotemporal changes of corn developmental stages in the U.S. corn belt using MODIS WDRVI data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1926-1936

  Sakamoto, Toshihiro ^a,b   Wardlow, Brian D ^a   Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; optical imaging; remote sensing; time series; vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CHANGE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORN GROWTH; CROP PHENOLOGY; CROP YIELD; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; ILLINOIS; INDIANA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICES; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHENOLOGICAL STAGE; PROGRESS REPORT; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES; VEGETATION MAPPING; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

CROPS; ERROR STATISTICS; RATING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCHEDULING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

RADIOMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ILLINOIS; INDIANA; IOWA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79957630538     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2095462     Document Type: Article

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