Using active canopy sensors to quantify corn nitrogen stress and nitrogen application rate

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 964-971

  Barker, Daniel W ^a   Sawyer, John E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY CHLOROPHYLL; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CROP CIRCLES; ECONOMIC OPTIMUM; GROWTH STAGES; INDEX MODELS; INDEX VALUES; INPUT VARIABLES; N FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN APPLICATION RATES; NITROGEN RATE; NITROGEN STRESS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; REGRESSION MODEL; VARIABLE RATE; VEGETATIVE INDEX;

CHLOROPHYLL; NITROGEN; PORPHYRINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

EID: 77952646639     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2010.0004     Document Type: Article

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