Canopy transmittance inversion using a line quantum probe for a row crop

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 225-234

  Cohen, Shabtai ^a   Rao, R Sudhakara ^b   Cohen, Yehezkel ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION   (India)

Author keywords

Direct solar radiation; Photosynthetically active radiation; Plant area index; Row crop

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030724173     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(96)02426-4     Document Type: Article

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