A comparison of crop data measured by two commercial sensors for variable-rate nitrogen application

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-161

  Tremblay, Nicolas ^a   Wang, Zhijie ^a   Ma, Bao Luo ^b   Belec, Carl ^a   Vigneault, Philippe ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commercial sensors; Nitrogen status assessment; Performance; Remote sensing; Variability; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NDVI; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSOR; WHEAT;

CANADA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 61349110707     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-008-9080-2     Document Type: Article

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