Aerial color infrared photography for determining early in-season nitrogen requirements in corn

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 968-977

  Sripada, Ravi P ^a   Heiniger, Ronnie W ^b   White, Jeffrey G ^a   Meijer, Alan D ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vernon James Research and Extension Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZERS; GROWTH KINETICS; INFRARED IMAGING; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AERIAL COLOR-INFRARED (CIR) PHOTOGRAPHY; GREEN RATIO VEGETATION INDEX; NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PLAIN; RELATIVE GREEN DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SOIL REFLECTANCE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

CORN; FERTILIZERS; GROWTH; INFRARED DETECTORS; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33746580496     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0200     Document Type: Article

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