Estimating nitrogen status of rice using the image segmentation of G-R thresholding method

Field Crops Research

Volumn 149, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-39

  Wang, Yuan ^a   Wang, Dejian ^a   Zhang, Gang ^a   Wang, Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Digital camera; Image processing technology; Nitrogen nutrition; Rice; Visible spectrum

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CORRELATION; DIGITAL IMAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RICE; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84878192004     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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