Estimating millet production for famine early warning: An application of crop simulation modelling using satellite and ground-based data in Burkina Faso

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 95-112

  Thornton, P K ^a   Bowen, W T ^a   Ravelo, A C ^b,e   Wilkens, P W ^a   Farmer, G ^c   Brock, J ^d,f   Brink, J E ^a  

^a International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development   (United States)

^b Famine Early Warning Syst (FEWS) P   (United States)

^c S African Devmt Comm (FAO/SADC)   (Zimbabwe)

^d Earth Rsrc Observ Syst (EROS) D   (United States)

^e University of Córdoba   (Argentina)

^f CENTER FOR COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERES-MILLET; CROP GROWTH MODELLING; CROP MODEL; CROP PRODUCTION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FAMINE; GIS; MILLET; MILLET PRODUCTION; MODEL; REMOTE SENSING;

BURKINA FASO;

PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; POACEAE;

EID: 0030619375     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(96)02348-9     Document Type: Article

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