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In our new publication “Evaluating the sequential masking classification approach for improving crop discrimination in the Sudanian Savanna of West Africa” we investigated the benefit of sequential masking on the accuracy of crop mapping in the heterogeneous landscapes of the Sudanian Savanna in West Africa.
Please find abstract and paper under: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169915002951
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