Use of a virtual-reference concept to interpret active crop canopy sensor data

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-85

  Holland, Kyle H ^a   Schepers, James S ^b  

^a Holland Scientific   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Nitrogen; Real time sensors; Sufficiency index; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CANOPY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWING SEASON; HISTOGRAM; MAIZE; NITROGEN; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REAL TIME; SENSOR; VEGETATION INDEX; VIGOR;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84872594845     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-012-9301-6     Document Type: Article

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