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In this study, a new method was used to define such thresholds for identifying the start and end of the growing season (SOS\/EOS) for 43 different agricultural zones in China. The method used 2000\u20132003 NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data with a spatial resolution of eight kilometers and a temporal resolution of 15 days. Following data pre-processing, time series for the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI or N), slope of the NDVI curve (S), and difference (D) between the NDVI value and a base NDVI value for bare land without snow were constructed. For each zone, an optimal set of threshold values for N, D, and S was determined, based on the remote sensing data and observed SOS\/EOS data for 2003 at 261 agro-meteorological stations. Results were verified by comparing the accuracy of the new proposed NDS threshold method with the results of three other methods for SOS\/EOS detection with remote sensing data. The findings of all four methods were compared to  in situ SOS\/EOS data from 2000 to 2002 for 110 agro-meteorological stations. Results show that the developed NDS threshold method had a significantly higher accuracy compared with other methods. The method is mainly limited by the observed data and the necessity of reestablishing the thresholds periodically.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5073190","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,7,1]],"date-time":"2013-07-01T11:23:17Z","timestamp":1372677797000},"page":"3190-3211","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":96,"title":["Remote Sensing Based Detection of Crop Phenology for Agricultural Zones in China Using a New Threshold Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Xingzhi","family":"You","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Olympic Village Science Park, W. 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