Evaluating crop area mapping from modis time-series as an assessment tool for Zimbabwe's "fast track land reform programme"

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Hentze, Konrad ^a   Thonfeld, Frank ^a   Menz, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPLAND; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAND USE; RANDOM FOREST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ZIMBABWE; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; CROP; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME FACTOR; UNITED NATIONS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED NATIONS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84973622907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156630     Document Type: Article

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