Remote sensing based detection of crop phenology for agricultural zones in China using a new threshold method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3190-3211

  You, Xingzhi ^a   Meng, Jihua ^a   Zhang, Miao ^a   Dong, Taifeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crop proportion; Crops; NDVI; NOAA AVHRR; Phenology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CROP PROPORTION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; NDVI; NOAA AVHRR; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BIOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

CROPS;

EID: 84881482288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073190     Document Type: Article

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