A new automatic stratification method for u.s. agricultural area sampling frame construction based on the cropland data layer

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4317-4327

  Boryan, Claire ^a   Yang, Zhengwei ^a   Di, Liping ^a,b   Hunt, Kevin ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area sampling frame (ASF); automated stratification; cropland data layer (CDL); cultivated data layer; land cover based stratification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUTOMATION;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AREA SAMPLING; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DATA LAYER; FRAME CONSTRUCTION; LAND COVER; NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICES; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

CULTIVATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA;

GEORGIA; OHIO; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84921024015     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2322584     Document Type: Article

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