Economic benefits of neural network-generated sitespecific decision rules for nitrogen fertilization

Precision Agriculture 2007 - Papers Presented at the 6th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 775-782

  Wagner, P ^a   Schneider, M ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Decision rules; Economic viability; Nitrogen fertilization; On farm field trial

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NET; DECISION RULES; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; FIELD TRIAL; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; SITE-SPECIFIC;

AGRICULTURE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 48949110090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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