Estimating nitrogen concentration in rape from hyperspectral data at canopy level using support vector machines

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 172-183

  Wang, Fumin ^a   Huang, Jingfeng ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Liu, Zhanyu ^b   Zhang, Fayao ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral; Nitrogen concentration; Rape; Reflectance; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HERB; MONITORING; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84874701048     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-012-9285-2     Document Type: Article

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