Estimating oil palm yields using vegetation indices derived from QuickBird

Life Science Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 851-860

  Balasundram, Siva K ^a   Memarian, Hadi ^b   Khosla, Rajiv ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical modeling; Oil palm; Satellite remote sensing; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886579128     PISSN: 10978135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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