Conterminous United States crop field size quantification from multi-temporal Landsat data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 172, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-86

  Yan, L ^a   Roy, D P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Fields; Landsat; Object extraction; WELD

Indexed keywords

CROPS; EXTRACTION; INVESTMENTS; MACHINERY; PIXELS; WELDING; WELDS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY; ENHANCE THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); FIELDS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICES; OBJECT EXTRACTION; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES;

AGRICULTURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AUTOMATION; CROP PLANT; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITIZATION; HISTOGRAM; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAIZE; MAPPING METHOD; PIXEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84946888122     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.10.034     Document Type: Article

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