Remote sensing of forage nutrients: Combining ecological and spectral absorption feature data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-35

  Knox, Nichola M ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^b   Heitkönig, Ignas M A ^b   Slotow, Rob ^c   van der Waal, Cornelis ^b,d   de Boer, William F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d Vanderwaal and Associates Agri ecological Services   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Ecology; Hyperspectral; Landscape; Modelling; Monitoring; Resources

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY DATA; BIOCHEMICAL MODEL; DATA SOURCE; DRY AND WET; ECOLOGICAL VARIABLES; FEATURE DATA; FORAGE QUALITY; GOODNESS OF FIT; HYPERSPECTRAL; LABORATORY STUDIES; LANDSCAPE; NATIONAL PARKS; PLANT SPECIES; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REGRESSION MODELLING; RESOURCES; SOIL CLASS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; SPECTRAL DATA;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; MODELS; MONITORING; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ABSORPTION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGE; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; MONITORING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNGULATE; WILD POPULATION;

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA;

POACEAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 84862763620     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.05.013     Document Type: Article

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