In-season wheat sown area mapping for Afghanistan using high resolution optical and RADAR images in cloud platform

Mir A Matin1, Varun Tiwari1, Faisal M. Qamer2, Nabin Kumar Yadav3, Walter Lee Ellenburg4, Birendra Bajracharya2, Krishna Vadrevu5, Begum Rabeya Rushi6, Noorullah Stanikzai7, Waheedullah Yusafi1 and Haqiq Rahmani1, (1)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock, Kabul, Afghanistan