Remote sensing and cropping practices: A review

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Bégué, Agnès ^a,b   Arvor, Damien ^c   Bellon, Beatriz ^a,b   Betbeder, Julie ^b,d   de Abelleyra, Diego ^e   Ferraz, Rodrigo P D ^f   Lebourgeois, Valentine ^a,b   Lelong, Camille ^a,b   Simões, Margareth ^f,g   Verón, Santiago R ^e,h  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d TA C 105 D Campus International de Baillarguet   (France)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^f EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Crop succession; Cropping pattern; Cropping system; Fallow; Harvest; Intercropping; Irrigation; Multiple cropping; Rotation; Soil tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FOOD SUPPLY; HARVESTING; IRRIGATION; ROTATION;

AGROFORESTRY; CROP SUCCESSIONS; CROPPING PATTERNS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; FALLOW; INTERCROPPING; MULTIPLE CROPPING; SOIL TILLAGE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85040696132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10010099     Document Type: Review

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