A floating sensing system to evaluate soil and crop variability within flooded paddy rice fields

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 850-859

  Islam, Mohammad Monirul ^a   Cockx, Liesbet ^a   Meerschman, Eef ^a   de Smedt, Philippe ^a   Meeuws, Fun ^a   van Meirvenne, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apparent electrical conductivity; Bangladesh; EM38; Flooded soil; Paddy

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CULTIVATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FLOODPLAIN; PADDY FIELD; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL TYPE; SUBSOIL;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 80255122619     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-011-9226-5     Document Type: Article

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