An active sensor algorithm for corn nitrogen recommendations based on a chlorophyll meter algorithm

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1090-1098

  Solari, Fernando ^a   Shanahan, John F ^b   Ferguson, Richard B ^c   Adamchuk, Viacheslav I ^c  

^a Monsanto Argentina   (Argentina)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSOR; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CROP CANOPY; DATA SETS; GROWTH STAGES; IRRIGATED CORN; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODEL FIT; N BALANCE; POSITIVE VALUE; QUADRATIC EQUATIONS; SENSOR READINGS;

ALGORITHMS; CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; PORPHYRINS;

SENSORS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77954279662     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2010.0009     Document Type: Article

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