An evaluation of overhead laser scanning to estimate herbage removals in pasture quadrats

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1523-1528

  Radtke, Philip J ^a   Boland, Holly T ^b   Scaglia, Guillermo ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Louisiana State University Agricultural Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing imprint; Intake estimation; Sward structure; Terrestrial lidar

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; CONTOUR MAP; DATA ACQUISITION; FORAGE; GRASS; GRAZING; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; PASTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SWARD;

FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; LOLIUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 77957860009     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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