Dynamic identification of summer cropping irrigated areas in a large basin experiencing extreme climatic variability

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 139-152

  Peña Arancibia, Jorge L ^a   McVicar, Tim R ^a   Paydar, Zahra ^a   Li, Lingtao ^a   Guerschman, Juan P ^a   Donohue, Randall J ^a   Dutta, Dushmanta ^a   Podger, Geoff M ^a   van Dijk, Albert I J M ^a,b   Chiew, Francis H S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image classification; Irrigation; Mapping; Random Forest; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION TREES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IRRIGATION; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; RANDOM FORESTS; REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS;

WATER SUPPLY;

CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXTREME EVENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IRRIGATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; PIXEL; RANDOM WALK METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84945337520     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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