Remote sensing time series analysis for crop monitoring with the SPIRITS software: New functionalities and use examples

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Rembold, Felix ^a   Meroni, Michele ^a   Urbano, Ferdinando ^a   Royer, Antoine ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b   Lemoine, Guido ^a   Eerens, Herman ^c   Haesen, Dominique ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crop monitoring; Food security analysis; Image time series; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011657677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00046     Document Type: Article

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