Using vegetation indices from satellite remote sensing to assess corn and soybean response to controlled tile drainage

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-270

  Cicek, H ^a   Sunohara, M ^b   Wilkes, G ^b   McNairn, H ^b   Pick, F ^c   Topp, E ^b   Lapen, D R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Controlled tile drainage (CTD); Crop monitoring; Grain yield; Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI); Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Remote sensing; Uncontrolled tile drainage (UCTD)

Indexed keywords

CROP MONITORING; GRAIN YIELD; GREEN NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TILE DRAINAGE; UNCONTROLLED TILE DRAINAGE (UCTD);

AMINO ACIDS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); LANDFORMS; NITROGEN FIXATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

VEGETATION;

CROP YIELD; LANDSAT; MAIZE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MONITORING; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOYBEAN; SPOT; TILE DRAIN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78249233839     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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