Nonlinear hierarchical models for predicting cover crop biomass using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2833-2840

  Muñoz, Juan David ^a   Finley, Andrew O ^a   Gehl, Ron ^b   Kravchenko Sasha, S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Cover crop; Heteroscedasticity; MCMC; NDVI; Red clover

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; COVER CROPS; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; MCMC; NDVI; RED CLOVER;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CROPS; FORECASTING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS;

COVER CROP; DICOTYLEDON; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NDVI; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; SOIL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 77956883860     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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