Near real-time agriculture monitoring at national scale at parcel resolution: Performance assessment of the Sen2-Agri automated system in various cropping systems around the world

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 221, Issue , 2019, Pages 551-568

  Defourny, Pierre ^a   Bontemps, Sophie ^a   Bellemans, Nicolas ^a   Cara, Cosmin ^b   Dedieu, Gérard ^c   Guzzonato, Eric ^d   Hagolle, Olivier ^c   Inglada, Jordi ^c   Nicola, Laurentiu ^b   Rabaute, Thierry ^d   Savinaud, Mickael ^d   Udroiu, Cosmin ^b   Valero, Silvia ^c   Bégué, Agnès ^e,f   Dejoux, Jean François ^c   El Harti, Abderrazak ^g   Ezzahar, Jamal ^h,n   Kussul, Nataliia ⁱ   Labbassi, Kamal ^j   Lebourgeois, Valentine ^e,f   Miao, Zhang ^k   Newby, Terrence ^l   Nyamugama, Adolph ^l   Salh, Norakhan ^m   Shelestov, Andrii ⁱ   Simonneaux, Vincent ^c,n   Traore, Pierre Sibiry ^o   Traore, Souleymane S ^p   Koetz, Benjamin ^q   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CS Romania SA   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d CS Systemes d'Information Company   (France)

^e UMR TETIS   (France)

^f UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^g SULTAN MOULAY SLIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^h CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^j CHOUAIB DOUKKALI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^k INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^l AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^m Ministry of Agriculture   (Sudan)

ⁿ FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^o INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

^p Institut d'Economie Rurale Mali   (Mali)

^q ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Agriculture monitoring; Cloud computing; Crop type mapping; Cropland; Machine learning; Sentinel 2

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CLOUD COMPUTING; CROPS; DEMONSTRATIONS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MONITORING; ORBITS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE MONITORING; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; CROP TYPE MAPPINGS; CROPLAND; FULL-SCALE DEMONSTRATIONS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL-2;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; CROP PLANT; CROPPING PRACTICE; LANDSAT; MACHINE LEARNING; MAPPING METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERFORATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE MISSION; SENTINEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

MALI; SOUTH AFRICA; UKRAINE;

EID: 85057630103     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.007     Document Type: Article

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