Classification of crops, pastures, and tree plantations along the season with multi-sensor image time series in a subtropical agricultural region

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Santos, Cecília Lira Melo de Oliveira ^a   Lamparelli, Rubens Augusto Camargo ^a   Figueiredo, Gleyce Kelly Dantas Araújo ^a   Dupuy, Stéphane ^b   Boury, Julie ^c   Luciano, Ana Cláudia dos Santos ^a,d   Torres, Ricardo da Silva ^a   le Maire, Guerric ^a,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UMR TETIS   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY AND MATERIALS CNPEM   (Brazil)

^e CIRAD   (France)

^f UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Decision tree; land cover; Landsat 7; Landsat 8; OBIA; Random forest; Segmentation; Sentinel 1; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DECISION TREES; FILLING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSAT 7; OBIA; RANDOM FORESTS; SENTINEL-1;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85061349123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11030334     Document Type: Article

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