Mapping cashew monocultures in the Western Ghats using optical and radar imagery in Google Earth Engine

• Main Authors: Rege, Anushka, Warnekar, Smita Bodhankar, Lee, Janice Ser Huay
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Anacardium Occidentale; Random Forest
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164660
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tropical deforestation is increasingly driven by the expansion of agricultural commodity production. Mapping commodity crops is an important step towards monitoring commodity-driven deforestation. Advances in remote sensing technology, such as the availability of high-resolution imagery and the comb...