CROPS IDENTIFICATION BY USING SATELLITE IMAGES AND ALGORITHM FOR CALCULATING ESTIMATES

Abstract

The paper proposes a crop identification method based on the algorithm for calculating estimates using satellites images. The classification features are the set of time series values, built by the sequence of satellite images, and geographic coordinate of field – latitude. Method was tested by using Terra/MODIS images and ground-based information. The comparison of the classification quality of proposed method with classification quality of the classifier based on Mahalanobis Distance is given.