complex Earth’s observation models should be explored for
improving the upscaling algorithm.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for
their helpful suggestions and insightful comments that greatly
improved our manuscript. Partial funding was provided by
the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. This is
Scientific Contribution Number 2750. This work was support-
ed by the
USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture Mc-
Intire Stennis Project #NH00077-M (Accession #1002519). We
thank National Agricultural Statistics Service (
NASS
) Cropland
Data for providing
CDL
data. We also thank China Scholarship
Council (
CSC
) for providing foundation for the first author as a
visiting researcher in the Basic and Applied Spatial Analysis
Lab (
BASAL
), Department of Natural Resources and the Envi-
ronment, University of New Hampshire, under the direction
of Dr. Russell G. Congalton.
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