Hyperspectral determination of feed quality constituents in temperate pastures: Effect of processing methods on predictive relationships from partial least squares regression

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 322-334

  Thulin, Susanne ^c,d   Hill, Michael J ^a   Held, Alex ^b   Jones, Simon ^c   Woodgate, Peter ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Brockmann Geomatics Sweden AB   (Sweden)

^e Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellulose; Digestibility; Lignin; Pastures; Protein; Quality; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CELLULOSE; DIGESTIBILITY; FOOD QUALITY; GRASSLAND; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LIGNIN; PASTURE; PROTEIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTROMETER; TRANSFORM; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84872821026     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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