Hidden markov models for real-time estimation of corn progress stages using MODIS and meteorological data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1734-1753

  Shen, Yonglin ^a,b   Wu, Lixin ^a   Di, Liping ^b   Yu, Genong ^b   Tang, Hong ^a   Yu, Guoxian ^c   Shao, Yuanzheng ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Hidden markov model (HMM); Phenology; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY; GROWING DEGREE DAYS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHENOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION;

CROPS; ESTIMATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SCHEDULING; TIME SERIES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84880397637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5041734     Document Type: Article

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