Application of day and night digital photographs for estimating maize biophysical characteristics

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-301

  Sakamoto, Toshihiro ^a,b   Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a   Wardlow, Brian D ^a   Arkebauer, Timothy J ^c   Verma, Shashi B ^a   Suyker, Andrew E ^a   Shibayama, Michio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

2g r b; Crop phenology; Dry biomass; Night time flash image; NRBI NIR; VARI

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; DIGITAL IMAGE; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; NEAR INFRARED; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION INDEX;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860523661     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-011-9246-1     Document Type: Article

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