High-Resolution NDVI from planet's constellation of earth observing nano-satellites: A new data source for precision agriculture

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Houborg, Rasmus ^a   McCabe, Matthew F ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Data mining; Landsat; Nano satellites; NDVI; Planet labs; Precision agriculture; RGB

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA MINING; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NANOSATELLITES; NANOSENSORS; ORBITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; INFORMATION SOURCES; LANDSAT; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RADIOMETRIC SENSORS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84996590419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090768     Document Type: Article

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