Early season large-area winter crop mapping using MODIS NDVI data, growing degree days information and a Gaussian mixture model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 195, Issue , 2017, Pages 244-258

  Skakun, Sergii ^a,b   Franch, Belen ^a,b   Vermote, Eric ^b   Roger, Jean Claude ^a,b   Becker Reshef, Inbal ^a   Justice, Christopher ^a   Kussul, Nataliia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Classification; GDD; GMM; Mapping; MERRA2; Mixture model; Modis; Winter crop

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

MERRA2; MIXTURE MODEL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES; WINTER CROPS;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION; CROP PRODUCTION; GROWING SEASON; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

KANSAS; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85018380879     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.026     Document Type: Article

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