Evaluating an active optical sensor for quantifying and mapping green herbage mass and growth in a perennial grass pasture

Crop and Pasture Science

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 389-398

  Trotter, M G ^a,b   Lamb, D W ^a,b   Donald, G E ^a,c   Schneider, D A ^a,b  

^a Global Spatial Network Board   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DRY MATTER; GPS; GRAZING; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; PASTURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSOR; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 77952515167     PISSN: 18360947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/CP10019     Document Type: Article

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