Building a data set over 12 globally distributed sites to support the development of agriculture monitoring applications with Sentinel-2

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 16062-16090

  Bontemps, Sophie ^a   Arias, Marcela ^b   Cara, Cosmin ^c   Dedieu, Gérard ^b   Guzzonato, Eric ^d   Hagolle, Olivier ^b   Inglada, Jordi ^b   Matton, Nicolas ^a   Morin, David ^b   Popescu, Ramona ^c   Rabaute, Thierry ^d   Savinaud, Mickael ^d   Sepulcre, Guadalupe ^a   Valero, Silvia ^b   Ahmad, Ijaz ^e   Bégué, Agnès ^f   Wu, Bingfang ^g   de Abelleyra, Diego ^h   Diarra, Alhousseine ⁱ   Dupuy, Stéphane ^f   French, Andrew ^j   Akhtar, Ibrar ul Hassan ^e   Kussul, Nataliia ^k   Lebourgeois, Valentine ^f   Page, Michel Le ^b,i   Newby, Terrence ^l   Savin, Igor ^m   Verón, Santiago R ^h   Koetz, Benjamin ⁿ   Defourny, Pierre ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CS Romania SA   (Romania)

^d CS Systemes d'Information Company   (France)

^e Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission   (Pakistan)

^f UMR TETIS   (France)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^h INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

ⁱ FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^j AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^k INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^l AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^m PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Agriculture monitoring; GEOGLAM; In situ data; JECAM; Landsat 8; Satellite time series; Sentinel 2; SPOT4 (Take 5)

Indexed keywords

CROPS; OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES;

AGRICULTURE MONITORING; GEOGLAM; IN-SITU DATA; JECAM; LANDSAT; SATELLITE TIME; SENTINEL-2; SPOT4 (TAKE 5);

MONITORING;

EID: 84957919523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215815     Document Type: Article

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