Sun position and cloud effects on reflectance and vegetation indices of corn

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 734-744

  de Souza, Eduardo G ^a   Scharf, Peter C ^b   Sudduth, Kenneth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO OESTE DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD EFFECTS; CLOUDY SKIES; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CORN CANOPY; GREEN NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; GROWTH STAGES; N FERTILIZERS; PLANT CANOPIES; REFERENCE CONDITION; REFLECTANCE CHARACTERISTICS; REFLECTANCE VALUES; REGRESSION MODEL; SKY CONDITION; SOLAR NOON; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPECTRAL RADIOMETERS; SUN ANGLE; SUN POSITION; TIME OF DAY; VARIABLE RATE; VEGETATION INDEX;

FORESTRY; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REAL VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

REFLECTION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77749327448     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0206     Document Type: Article

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