Taken as a given: Evaluating the accuracy of remotely sensed crop data in the USA

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-125

  Larsen, Ashley E ^a   Hendrickson, Brandon T ^a   Dedeic, Nicholas ^a   MacDonald, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural census; Agriculture; Cropland; Geospatial data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CENSUS; DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VALUATION; VEGETATION TYPE; WHEAT;

UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84945316549     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2015.10.008     Document Type: Article

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