Assessment of an operational system for crop type map production using high temporal and spatial resolution satellite optical imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 12356-12379

  Inglada, Jordi ^a   Arias, Marcela ^a   Tardy, Benjamin ^a   Hagolle, Olivier ^a   Valero, Silvia ^a   Morin, David ^a   Dedieu, Gèrard ^a   Sepulcre, Guadalupe ^b   Bontemps, Sophie ^b   Defourny, Pierre ^b   Koetz, Benjamin ^c  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop type mapping; Land cover; Landsat 8; Random forests; Satellite image time series; Sentinel 2; SPOT4 (Take5); Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CROPS; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SUPERVISED LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CROP TYPE MAPPINGS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; RANDOM FORESTS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SENTINEL-2; SPOT4 (TAKE5);

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84942518161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70912356     Document Type: Article

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