PhenoRice: A method for automatic extraction of spatio-temporal information on rice crops using satellite data time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 194, Issue , 2017, Pages 347-365

  Boschetti, Mirco ^a   Busetto, Lorenzo ^a   Manfron, Giacinto ^a   Laborte, Alice ^b   Asilo, Sonia ^b,c   Pazhanivelan, Sellaperumal ^d   Nelson, Andrew ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture; MODIS; Phenology; Rice; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLOUD SEEDING; CULTIVATION; EXTRACTION; INFORMATION USE; RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES;

AGRICULTURAL MONITORING; ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; RICE; RICE CROPPING SYSTEMS; SPATIOTEMPORAL INFORMATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

CROPS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CROPPING PRACTICE; CULTIVATION; DATA PROCESSING; MODIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; PHENOLOGY; RICE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

INDIA; ITALY; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 85017329700     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.029     Document Type: Article

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