Assessment of MODIS spectral indices for determining rice paddy agricultural practices and hydroperiod

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 101, Issue , 2015, Pages 110-124

  Tornos, Lucia ^a   Huesca, Margarita ^b   Dominguez, Jose Antonio ^c   Moyano, Maria Carmen ^a   Cicuendez, Victor ^d   Recuero, Laura ^d   Palacios Orueta, Alicia ^d  

^a Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras Publicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Analysis; Crop; Detection; Floods; MODIS; Monitoring; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HYDROPERIOD; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MODIS; MONITORING; PADDY FARMING; POLICY MAKING; RICE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CATALONIA; EBRO DELTA; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

EID: 84919936049     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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