Exploring Google earth engine platform for big data processing: Classification of multi-temporal satellite imagery for crop mapping

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-10

  Shelestov, Andrii ^a,b   Lavreniuk, Mykola ^a,b   Kussul, Nataliia ^a,b   Novikov, Alexei ^b   Skakun, Sergii ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Classification; Google Earth Engine; Image Processing; Land cover; Land use; Optical satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIG DATA; CROPS; DATA HANDLING; DECISION TREES; EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; FOOD SUPPLY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND USE; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; GOOGLE EARTHS; LAND COVER; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SATELLITE DATA PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

CLASSIFICATION; CROP; DATA PROCESSING; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

KIEV [UKRAINE]; UKRAINE;

EID: 85019930085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00017     Document Type: Article

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