Identification of Agricultural Crops by Computer Processing in the Provinces of Cordoba and La Pampa - Argentina

This paper deals with agricultural inventory parameters from LANDSAT digital data extracted via an interactive processing system. In this study, a man-machine interactive processing system performed the analysis of LANDSAT digital data. Specifically, multispectral agricultural crop identification and spatial area determination, within the study areas, were carried out. A temporal coordination between the multispectral LANDSAT satellite and the ground truth of the same area was attained, from which two test fields digitally classified, in accordance with crop species, crop varieties and soil types of the same place were chosen. The results illustrate the importance of interactive processing for analyzing LANDSAT data. It must be pointed out that they do not represent the full potential of temporal information since they are preliminary results