Object-based greenhouse horticultural crop identification from multi-temporal satellite imagery: A case study in Almeria, Spain

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7378-7401

  Aguilar, Manuel A ^a   Vallario, Andrea ^b   Aguilar, Fernando J ^a   Lorca, Andrés García ^a   Parente, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Greenhouse crops; Landsat 8; Object based classification; Time series; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; CULTIVATION; DECISION TREES; FRUITS; GREENHOUSES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; GREENHOUSE CROPS; GREENHOUSE MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS (OBIA); OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; WORLDVIEW-2;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84933506460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607378     Document Type: Article

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