Monitoring of rice crop using satellite Remote Sensing and GIS technologies in Afghanistan
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Noviembre 2016
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FAODOCREP:880bb443-03de-4de6-bb61-05dab770d5e8
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2
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Afghanistan has an area of 379,100 Sq. km classified as agriculture land. But the country is generally deficit in food production. So the availability of reliable information on natural resources and the agricultural monitoring are urgently necessary for the adoption of new strategies about rural land use planning and land management. This is the way for reducing hunger and poverty among population and to assure sustainable food and feed production for future generations. Rice is one of the three main food security crop of Afghanistan. This project starts from here: from the rice crop area estimation and rice crop mask development.
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