Rice is one of the staple foods for more than three billion people worldwide. Rice paddies
accounted for approximately 11.5% of the World's arable land area during 2012. Rice …

Paddy rice agriculture plays an important role in various environmental issues including
food security, water use, climate change, and disease transmission. However, regional and …

Information on the area and spatial distribution of paddy rice fields is needed for trace gas
emission estimates, management of water resources, and food security. Paddy rice fields …

In this paper, we developed a new geospatial database of paddy rice agriculture for 13
countries in South and Southeast Asia. These countries have∼ 30% of the world population …

Rice means life for millions of people and it is planted in many regions of the world. It
primarily grows in the major river deltas of Asia and Southeast Asia, such as the Mekong …

A unique physical feature of paddy rice fields is that rice is grown on flooded soil. During the
period of flooding and rice transplanting, there is a large proportion of surface water in a …

This article gives an overview of different ways to use satellite images for land cover area
estimation. Approaches are grouped into three categories.(1) Estimates coming essentially …

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) time-series data has been widely used in the fields of crop and …

Monitoring the production of main agricultural crops is important to predict and prepare for
disruptions in food supply and fluctuations in global crop market prices. China's global crop …

The food security of smallholder farmers is vulnerable to climate change and climate
variability. Cropping intensity, the number of crops planted annually, can be used as a …