Remote sensing of plant nitrogen status in corn

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1869-1875

  Bausch, W C ^a,b   Duke, H R ^a,b  

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy reflectance; Chlorophyll meter; N reflectance index; N sufficiency index

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS; POACEAE;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CORN; CROP SURFACE; MAIZE; NITROGEN; REFLECTANCE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING;

CHLOROPHYLL; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INFRARED IMAGING; LEACHING; NITRATES; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFLECTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY;

NITROGEN REFLECTANCE INDEX; NITROGEN SUFFICIENCY INDEX;

CROPS;

EID: 0030300961     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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