Ground-based canopy reflectance sensing for variable-rate nitrogen corn fertilization

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-84

  Kitchen, Newell R ^a   Sudduth, Kenneth A ^a   Drummond, Scott T ^a   Scharf, Peter C ^a   Palm, Harlan L ^a   Roberts, Darrin F ^b   Vories, Earl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION RATES; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; GROUND BASED; N FERTILIZERS; RATE RESPONSE; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR READINGS; SOIL TYPES; VARIABLE RATE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; CROPS; PROFITABILITY; REFLECTION; SENSORS; SOILS;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 74549137324     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0114     Document Type: Article

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