Meeting earth observation requirements for global agricultural monitoring: An evaluation of the revisit capabilities of current and planned moderate resolution optical earth observing missions

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1482-1503

  Whitcraft, Alyssa K ^a   Becker Reshef, Inbal ^a   Killough, Brian D ^b   Justice, Christopher O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural monitoring; CEOS; Cloud cover impacts; Earth observation requirements; GEOGLAM; Imaging constellation; Optical remote sensing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; INTEROPERABILITY; MONITORING; OBSERVATORIES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

AGRICULTURAL MONITORING; CEOS; CLOUD COVER; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; GEOGLAM; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84928776537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201482     Document Type: Article

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