An automated method for annual cropland mapping along the season for various globally-distributed agrosystems using high spatial and temporal resolution time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13208-13232

  Matton, Nicolas ^a   Canto, Guadalupe Sepulcre ^a   Waldner, François ^a   Valero, Silvia ^b   Morin, David ^b   Inglada, Jordi ^b   Arias, Marcela ^b   Bontemps, Sophie ^a   Koetz, Benjamin ^c   Defourny, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CNES   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture monitoring; Cropland; High resolution time series; JECAM; Sen2Agri; Sentinel 2; SPOT 4 (Take 5); Timeliness

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COST EFFECTIVENESS; TIME SERIES;

AGRICULTURE MONITORING; CROPLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; JECAM; SEN2AGRI; SENTINEL-2; SPOT 4 (TAKE 5); TIMELINESS;

MAPPING;

EID: 84945907812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71013208     Document Type: Article

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