Rapid corn and soybean mapping in US Corn Belt and neighboring areas

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhong, Liheng ^a   Yu, Le ^b,c   Li, Xuecao ^d   Hu, Lina ^b   Gong, Peng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER; CROP; CROPLAND; GROWING SEASON; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RANDOM FOREST; SOYBEAN; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; GOVERNMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; MAP; PROCEDURES; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MAPS AS TOPIC; SOYBEANS; SPACECRAFT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84994607536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep36240     Document Type: Article

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