A Comparative Study on Satellite- and Model-Based Crop Phenology in West Africa

Crop phenology is essential for evaluating crop production in the food insecure regions of West Africa. The aim of the paper is to study whether satellite observation of plant phenology are consistent with ground knowledge of crop cycles as expressed in agro-simulations. We used phenological variab...

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Main Authors: Elodie Vintrou, Agnès Bégué, Christian Baron, Alexandre Saad, Danny Lo Seen, Seydou B. Traoré
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-02-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/2/1367