Crop area mapping in West Africa using landscape stratification of MODIS time series and comparison with existing global land products

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-93

  Vintrou, Elodie ^a   Desbrosse, Annie ^a   Bégué, Agnès ^a   Traoré, Sibiry ^b   Baron, Christian ^a   Lo Seen, Danny ^a  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b IER Sotuba   (Mali)

Author keywords

Cultivated area; Global land products; Mali; MODIS time series; Stratification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODIS; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT; STRATIFICATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

MALI;

EID: 84864408692     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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