Active-crop sensor calibration using the virtual-reference concept

Precision Agriculture 2011 - Papers Presented at the 8th European Conference on Precision Agriculture 2011, ECPA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 469-479

  Holland, K ^a   Schepers, J ^b  

^a Holland Scientific   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active canopy sensors; Algorithm; Calibration; Nitrogen; Sufficiency index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; VEGETATION;

IRRIGATED CORN; N USE EFFICIENCY; REFERENCE CONCEPTS; SENSOR CALIBRATION; STRIP APPROACH; SUFFICIENCY INDEX; VEGETATION INDEX VALUES; VIRTUAL REFERENCE;

CROPS;

EID: 84872595270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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