Estimating regional winter wheat yield with WOFOST through the assimilation of green area index retrieved from MODIS observations

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 164, Issue , 2012, Pages 39-52

  De Wit, Allard ^a   Duveiller, Gregory ^b   Defourny, Pierre ^c  

^a European Commission Joint Research Centre ^*

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Green area index (GAI); MODIS; Regional scale; Winter wheat; WOFOST

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CROP YIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INDEX METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PIXEL; REGIONAL PATTERN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VARIOGRAM; WHEAT;

BELGIUM; WALLONIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84861722593     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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