Crop type classification

nesrin s.

@EIS

With Sentinel-1

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to derive a classification of crop types from radar images. You will use SNAP to process a time series of Sentinel-1 images of an agricultural area in Germany.

You will use the concept of temporal backscatter signatures to derive information from the radar images. Make sure you prepare carefully with the following steps, so you are ready to enjoy and learn from the tutorial.

Preparation

In order to do this tutorial, you have to make sure you’ve installed SNAP. If you did not, please go back to lesson 2 and follow the instructions in the topic Introduction to SNAP.

Get the data

For this tutorial you can download a prepared data set here. The data is packed in one ZIP archive and already subsetted for you

DOWNLOAD SENTINEL TIME SERIES

Data provided by:

USE SUBSET

In case you have a slow internet connection, you can alternatively download a subset of the above mentioned data here.

Tutorial

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