Mapping rice fields in urban Shanghai, southeast China, using Sentinel-1A and Landsat 8 datasets

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Mansaray, Lamin R ^a,b   Huang, Weijiao ^a   Zhang, Dongdong ^a   Huang, Jingfeng ^a   Li, Jun ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI)   (Sierra Leone)

^c SHANGHAI METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU   (China)

Author keywords

Landsat 8 OLI; Paddy rice; Sentinel 1A; Smallholder; Subtropics; Urban agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; LAND USE; MAPPING; POLARIZATION; VEGETATION;

LANDSAT; PADDY RICE; SENTINEL-1; SMALLHOLDER; SUBTROPICS; URBAN AGRICULTURES;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 85019387338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030257     Document Type: Article

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