Efficient corn and soybean mapping with temporal extendability: A multi-year experiment using Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-13

  Zhong, Liheng ^a   Gong, Peng ^a,b,c   Biging, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corn; Cropland mapping; Landsat; Phenology; Soybean

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED TEMPERATURES; CORN; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; LANDSAT; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGE DATA; PHENOLOGY; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SOYBEAN;

BIOLOGY; CROPS; CURVE FITTING; DECISION TREES; EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOMAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CEREAL; EMERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MATURATION; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

DONIPHAN COUNTY; KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884264508     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.023     Document Type: Article

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