Correction: Xiong et al. Probabilistic Tracking of Annual Cropland Changes over Large, Complex Agricultural Landscapes Using Google Earth Engine. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 4896

Xiong, Sitian; Baltezar, Priscilla; Crowley, Morgan A.; Cecil, Michael; Crema, Stefano C.; Baldwin, Eli; Cardille, Jeffrey A.; Estes, Lyndon

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Correction: Xiong et al. Probabilistic Tracking of Annual Cropland Changes over Large, Complex Agricultural Landscapes Using Google Earth Engine. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 4896

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Sitian Xiong

^1,†,

Priscilla Baltezar

^1,2,*,†,

Morgan A. Crowley

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,

Michael Cecil

¹,

Stefano C. Crema

⁴,

Eli Baldwin

¹,

Jeffrey A. Cardille

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and

Lyndon Estes

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Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA

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Department of Geography, College of the Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

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Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada

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Clark Labs, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA

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Bieler School of Environment, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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These authors contributed equally to this article.

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(19), 4692; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194692

Submission received: 27 July 2023 / Accepted: 1 August 2023 / Published: 25 September 2023

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Google Earth Engine: Cloud-Based Platform for Earth Observation Data and Analysis)

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