Early-season crop type mapping using 30-m reference time series

• Published in: Journal of Integrative Agriculture Vol. 19; no. 7; pp. 1897 - 1911
• Main Authors: HAO, Peng-yu, TANG, Hua-jun, CHEN, Zhong-xin, MENG, Qing-yan, KANG, Yu-peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2020; KeAi Communications Co., Ltd
• Subjects: agriculture; China; cotton; crop classification; data collection; early season; harvest date; Hengshui; Landsat; reference time series; Sentinel-2; time series analysis; winter wheat; yield forecasting; Zea mays; China; early season; crop classification; reference time series; Landsat; Sentinel-2; Hengshui

Early-season crop type mapping could provide important information for crop growth monitoring and yield prediction, but the lack of ground-surveyed training samples is the main challenge for crop type identification. Although reference time series based method (RBM) has been proposed to identify cro...