Towards improving the accuracy of opium yield estimates with remote sensing

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6292-6309

  Waine, Toby W ^a   Simms, Daniel M ^a   Taylor, John C ^a   Juniper, Graham R ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RANDOM SAMPLING; REGRESSION ESTIMATES; SAMPLE LOCATION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CORRECTION; DRUG; ERROR ANALYSIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; YIELD RESPONSE;

AFGHANISTAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85027957919     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.951743     Document Type: Article

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