Mapping smallholder wheat yields and sowing dates using micro-satellite data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Jain, Meha ^a,b   Srivastava, Amit K ^c   Balwinder Singh, ^c   Joon, Rajiv K ^c   McDonald, Andrew ^c   Royal, Keitasha ^d   Lisaius, Madeline C ^b   Lobell, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASC Complex   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; High resolution satellite imagery; SkySat; Smallholder farms; Terra Bella; Yields

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DNA SEQUENCES; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; PREDICTIVE ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE VEGETATION; SKYSAT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TERRA BELLA; YIELDS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 85019712461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8100860     Document Type: Article

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