Towards detection of cutting in hay meadows by using of NDVI and EVI time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 6107-6132

  Halabuk, Andrej ^a   Mojses, Matej ^a   Halabuk, Marek ^a   David, Stanislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Agricultural management; CART; Decision trees; Earth observation; Farmland management; Grasslands; Land use management; Rangelands

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CART; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; GRASSLANDS; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; RANGELANDS;

LAND USE;

EID: 84930021369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70506107     Document Type: Article

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