QPhenoMetrics: An open source software application to assess vegetation phenology metrics

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 148, Issue , 2018, Pages 82-94

  Duarte, Lia ^a   Teodoro, Ana C ^a   Monteiro, António T ^b   Cunha, Mário ^a,c   Gonçalves, Hernâni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crop phenology; EVI; Modelling; NDVI; QGIS; QPhenoMetrics

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CROPS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

CROP PHENOLOGY; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; MODELING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; QGIS; QPHENOMETRIC; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; TIMES SERIES; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; CROP; GIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85045795888     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2018.03.007     Document Type: Article

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