Crop classification from Sentinel-2-derived vegetation indices using ensemble learning

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Sonobe, Rei ^a   Yamaya, Yuki ^b   Tani, Hiroshi ^b   Wang, Xiufeng ^b   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^c   Mochizuki, Kan Ichiro ^d  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Smart Link Hokkaido   (Japan)

^d PASCO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

crop; random forests; Sentinel 2; stacking; support vector machine; vegetation index

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DECISION TREES; INFRARED DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; RANDOM FORESTS; SENTINEL-2; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; STACKING; VEGETATION INDEX;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 85047779134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.12.026019     Document Type: Article

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