Application of remote-sensing data in the index-based insurance design

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5311-5314

  Bokusheva, R ^a   Spivak, L ^a   Vitkovskaya, I ^a   Kogan, F ^b   Batyrbayeva, M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK; CRITICAL PHASIS; CROP INSURANCE; INSURANCE CONTRACTS; KAZAKHSTAN; VEGETATION INDEX; WHEAT YIELD;

AGRICULTURE; GEOLOGY; INSURANCE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873123462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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