Evaluation of two crop canopy sensors for nitrogen variability determination in irrigated maize

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 892-904

  Shaver, T M ^a   Khosla, R ^b,c   Westfall, D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Crop canopy sensors; NDVI; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP YIELD; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; NDVI; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL TYPE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80255123849     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-011-9229-2     Document Type: Article

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