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Prasad Thenkabail

Senior Scientist (ST) the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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Accuracy assessments of hyperspectral waveband performance for vegetation analysis applications

PS Thenkabail, EA Enclona, MS Ashton… - Remote sensing of …, 2004 - Elsevier
The main objectives of this research were to: (a) determine the best hyperspectral wavebands
in the study of vegetation and agricultural crops over the spectral range of 400–2500 nm; …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of narrowband and broadband vegetation indices for determining optimal hyperspectral wavebands for agricultural crop characterization

PS Thenkabail, RB Smith, E De Pauw - Photogrammetric engineering and …, 2002 - Citeseer
he main goal of the study was to determine optimal waveband centers and widths required
to best estimate agricultural crop characteristics. The hyperspectral narrowband data was …

Automated cropland mapping of continental Africa using Google Earth Engine cloud computing

J Xiong, PS Thenkabail, MK Gumma… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The automation of agricultural mapping using satellite-derived remotely sensed data remains
a challenge in Africa because of the heterogeneous and fragmental landscape, complex …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperspectral vegetation indices and their relationships with agricultural crop characteristics

PS Thenkabail, RB Smith, E De Pauw - Remote sensing of Environment, 2000 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to determine spectral bands that are best suited for characterizing
agricultural crop biophysical variables. The data for this study comes from ground-level …

Ganges and Indus river basin land use/land cover (LULC) and irrigated area mapping using continuous streams of MODIS data

PS Thenkabail, M Schull, H Turral - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2005 - Elsevier
The overarching goal of this study was to map irrigated areas in the Ganges and Indus river
basins using near-continuous time-series (8-day), 500-m resolution, 7-band MODIS land …

Hyperion, IKONOS, ALI, and ETM+ sensors in the study of African rainforests

PS Thenkabail, EA Enclona, MS Ashton, C Legg… - Remote sensing of …, 2004 - Elsevier
The goal of this research was to compare narrowband hyperspectral Hyperion data with
broadband hyperspatial IKONOS data and advanced multispectral Advanced Land Imager (ALI) …

Advances in hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation and agricultural crops

PS Thenkabail, JG Lyon, A Huete - … , Sensor Systems, Spectral …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400–…

Global irrigated area map (GIAM), derived from remote sensing, for the end of the last millennium

PS Thenkabail, CM Biradar, P Noojipady… - … journal of remote …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
A Global Irrigated Area Map (GIAM) has been produced for the end of the last millennium
using multiple satellite sensor, secondary, Google Earth and groundtruth data. The data …

Nominal 30-m cropland extent map of continental Africa by integrating pixel-based and object-based algorithms using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data on Google Earth …

J Xiong, PS Thenkabail, JC Tilton, MK Gumma… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
A satellite-derived cropland extent map at high spatial resolution (30-m or better) is a must
for food and water security analysis. Precise and accurate global cropland extent maps, …

A support vector machine to identify irrigated crop types using time-series Landsat NDVI data

B Zheng, SW Myint, PS Thenkabail… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Site-specific information of crop types is required for many agro-environmental assessments.
The study investigated the potential of support vector machines (SVMs) in discriminating …