Extracting smallholder cropped area in Tigray, Ethiopia with wall-to-wall sub-meter WorldView and moderate resolution Landsat 8 imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 202, Issue , 2017, Pages 142-151

  McCarty, J L ^a,b   Neigh, C S R ^c   Carroll, M L ^c,d   Wooten, M R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Big data; Crop area; Ethiopia; Image segmentation; Landsat 8; Smallholder farms; WorldView 1; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COPYRIGHTS; CROPS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SATELLITES;

CROP AREAS; ETHIOPIA; LANDSAT; WORLDVIEW-1; WORLDVIEW-2;

BIG DATA;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSAT; MAP; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WORLDVIEW;

ETHIOPIA; TIGRAY;

EID: 85022015408     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.040     Document Type: Article

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