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CRICULTURAL COVERAGES MONITORED
¥ LAND 5 AT MSS DATA AND AERTAT
H OT OGRAPHTT IN NORTHERN ITALY.
HR ESE/ SA MPLE'AGREAS IAN THE LOMBARDY
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mr. Paolo Campanelli; mr. Vincenzo
Pocci; mr. Vincenzo Romano ;
mr. Mauro Salvemini -- Italeco (")
Abstract
This paper is a survey of several areas in Northen Italy
taken as samples for a ground classification of the species
being cultivated in agriculture. The classification and subsequent
inventory were obtained through an analogical interpretation
of scenes from Landsat MSS data selected and processed ad hoc
so as to respond to the phenological characteristics of the
crops under examination.
The Landsat data were integrated through an examination
of aerial photographs from previous periods, of great use in
determining certain groups difficult to monitor through Landsat.
All the sample areas under survey have been classified in
eight groups; a quantitative inventory of the crops was then
drawn up and a check of the estimates reached using the convention
al methods employed by the "Ispettorato dell'Agricoltura" (The
Agriculture Inspectorate).
(") - Italeco S.p.A. ,a company in the IRI-ITALSTAT group,opera
tes in territorial engineering and specializes mainly in
the use of remote-sensing techniques in local and regional
planning.