Evaluating multiple indices from a canopy reflectance sensor to estimate corn N requirements

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1553-1561

  Sripada, Ravi P ^a   Schmidt, John P ^b   Dellinger, Adam E ^c   Beegle, Douglas B ^d  

^a Canaan Valley Inst   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NRCS   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CROPS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); REFLECTION; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCES; CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA; CROP CIRCLES; ECONOMIC OPTIMUMS; FACTORIAL EXPERIMENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN YIELDS; MULTIPLE INDICES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; NITROGEN RATES; PRICE RATIOS; RANDOMIZED COMPLETE BLOCKS; REFLECTANCE SENSORS; SPECTRAL BANDS; VEGETATION INDICES; VEGETATIVE INDICES; YIELD RESPONSES; ZEA MAYS L.;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 56849088439     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0017     Document Type: Article

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