A hidden markov models approach for crop classification: Linking crop phenology to time series of multi-sensor remote sensing data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3633-3650

  Siachalou, Sofia ^a   Mallinis, Giorgos ^b   Tsakiri Strati, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crop mapping; Data fusion; Hidden Markov Models; Mediterranean; Multi sensor; Multi temporal; Phenology; Temporal windows; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; DATA FUSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; MARKOV PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CROP MAPPING; MEDITERRANEAN; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PHENOLOGY; TEMPORAL WINDOWS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84937897682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70403633     Document Type: Article

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