Self-guided segmentation and classification of multi-temporal Landsat 8 images for crop type mapping in Southeastern Brazil

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 14482-14508

  Schultz, Bruno ^a,b   Immitzer, Markus ^b   Formaggio, Antonio Roberto ^a   Sanches, Ieda Del'Arco ^a   Luiz, Alfredo José Barreto ^c   Atzberger, Clement ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Crop mapping; Multi resolution segmentation; OBIA; OLI; Random forest

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DECISION TREES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; OILSEEDS; PIXELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SAMPLING;

BRAZIL; CROP MAPPING; OBIA; OLI; RANDOM FORESTS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84950112053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71114482     Document Type: Article

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