Estimation and mapping of winter oilseed rape LAI from high spatial resolution satellite data based on a hybrid method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Wei, Chuanwen ^a   Huang, Jingfeng ^a   Mansaray, Lamin R ^a,b   Li, Zhenhai ^c   Liu, Weiwei ^a   Han, Jiahui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Rice Research Station   (Sierra Leone)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

High spatial resolution; K near neighbor; Leaf area index; Random forest; Spectral vegetation index; Winter oilseed rape

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; OILSEEDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; OIL SEED RAPE; RANDOM FORESTS; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 85019964407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9050488     Document Type: Article

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