The JECAM SAR Inter-Comparison Experiment: Comparing agriculture classification results utilizing a well-established operational decision tree methodology incorporating a variety of C-band SAR and optical imagery applied to 13 worldwide, diverse agriculture systems.


Laura Dingle Robertson1, Andrew M. Davidson2, Heather McNairn2, Mehdi Hosseini3, Scott W Mitchell3, Diego de Abelleyra4, Santiago Verón4, Pierre Defourny5, Guerric le Maire6, Milena Planells7, Silvia Valero7, Nima Ahmadian8, Vineet Kumar9, Alisa Coffin10, David D Bosch11, Michael H Cosh12, Paul Robert Siqueira13, Bruno Basso14 and Nicanor Z Saliendra15, (1)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agroclimate, Geomatics and Earth Observation, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Carleton University, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)Argentina National Agricultural Technology Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (5)Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, (6)CIRAD Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (7)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (8)Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, (9)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (10)USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, GA, United States, (11)USDA, ARS, Tifton, United States, (12)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, (13)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States, (14)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (15)USDA ARS, Mandan, ND, United States