Efficient stabilization of crop yield prediction in the Canadian Prairies

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 223-232

  Bornn, Luke ^a   Zidek, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Canadian Prairies; Crop water stress index; Crop yield prediction; Smoothing; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGROMETEOROLOGY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PREDICTION; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STABILIZATION; WATER STRESS;

CANADA;

EID: 80054933679     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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