Mapping abandoned agriculture with multi-temporal MODIS satellite data

C Alcantara, T Kuemmerle, AV Prishchepov… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Agriculture is expanding and intensifying in many areas of the world, but abandoned
agriculture is also becoming more widespread. Unfortunately, data and methods to monitor …

A web-based GIS Decision Support System for managing and planning USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

M Rao, G Fan, J Thomas, G Cherian… - … Modelling & Software, 2007 - Elsevier
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is one of the largest programs of the US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) aimed at encouraging farmers and ranchers to address …

Soybean production and conversion of tropical forest in the Brazilian Amazon: The case of Vilhena, Rondonia

JC Brown, M Koeppe, B Coles, KP Price - AMBIO: a Journal of the Human …, 2005 - BioOne
The recent rise in Brazilian soybean production has generated concern among the
environmental community and some authors that natural tropical environments of the …

Conservation Reserve Program mitigates grassland loss in the lesser prairie-chicken range of Kansas

D Spencer, D Haukos, C Hagen, M Daniels… - Global Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the overall occupied range of the lesser prairie-
chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has declined by 84% commensurate with population …

Using conservation reserve program maps derived from satellite imagery to characterize landscape structure

SL Egbert, S Park, KP Price, RY Lee, J Wu… - … and electronics in …, 2002 - Elsevier
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) instituted one of the largest and most rapid land
use/land cover conversions in US history. Approximately 14.8 million ha (36.5 million acres) …

Spatio-temporal patterns of cropland conversion in response to the “Grain for Green Project” in China's loess hilly region of Yanchuan County

J Wang, Y Liu, Z Liu - Remote Sensing, 2013 - mdpi.com
To prevent environmental degradation, China's central government launched the “Grain for
Green Project”(GGP) in 1999. Since its beginning, the effects and influences of the GGP …

A comparative analysis of phenological curves for major crops in Kansas

I Masialeti, S Egbert, BD Wardlow - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of this research was to conduct an initial investigation into whether a time-series
NDVI reference curve library for crops over a growing season for one year could be used to …

Mapping land cover in a high plains agro-ecosystem using a multidate Landsat thematic mapper modeling approach

KP Price, SL Egbert, MD Nellis, RY Lee… - Transactions of the Kansas …, 1997 - JSTOR
The objective of this study was to develop a repeatable procedure for modeling land use
and land cover (LULC) within one of the most agriculturally developed and economically …

Groundwater depletion and agricultural land use change in the high plains: a case study from Wichita County, Kansas

L Harrington, J Harrington Jr… - The Professional …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Shifts in resource availability and resulting land use changes are important research themes
for coupled human and natural systems and human dimensions of global environmental …

Automatic CRP mapping using nonparametric machine learning approaches

X Song, G Fan, M Rao - IEEE transactions on geoscience and …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies an uneven two-class unsupervised classification problem of satellite
imagery, ie, the mapping of US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Conservation Reserve …