Utilizing collocated crop growth model simulations to train agronomic satellite retrieval algorithms

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2018, Pages

  Levitan, Nathaniel ^a   Gross, Barry ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

BLSTMs; Crop growth models; MODIS

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CROPS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM; BLSTMS; CROP GROWTH MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA; K FOLD CROSS VALIDATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 85058880636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10121968     Document Type: Article

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