A system identification approach for developing and parameterising an agroforestry system model under constrained availability of data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1540-1553

  Keesman, Karel J ^a   Graves, Anil ^b   van der Werf, Wopke ^a   Burgess, Paul J ^b   Palma, Joao ^c   Dupraz, Christian ^d   van Keulen, Herman ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^d Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement   (France)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Calibration; Constrained parameter optimization; Model adaptation; Real world agroforestry experiment; Validation

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL SYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM; CONSTRAINED PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; DATA POINTS; LIMITED DATA; MODEL ADAPTATION; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATIONS; UNDER-CONSTRAINED; VALIDATION; VALIDATION DATA;

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AGROFORESTRY; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; LITERATURE REVIEW; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84855511715     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.07.020     Document Type: Article

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