Phenology-based assessment of perennial energy crops in North American tallgrass prairie

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 742-751

  Wang, Cuizhen ^a   Fritschi, Felix B ^a   Stacey, Gary ^a   Yang, Zhengwei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Research and Development Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Crop phenology; Modis imagery; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; CROP RESIDUE; DECISION MAKING; ETHANOL; MODIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

UNITED STATES;

PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79958742496     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.567934     Document Type: Article

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