Multitemporal crop surface models: Accurate plant height measurement and biomass estimation with terrestrial laser scanning in paddy rice

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tilly, Nora ^a,b   Hoffmeister, Dirk ^a,b   Cao, Qiang ^b,c   Huang, Shanyu ^b,c   Lenz Wiedemann, Victoria ^a,b   Miao, Yuxin ^b,c   Bareth, Georg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b International Center for Agro Informatics and Sustainable Development   (Germany)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

biomass; crop monitoring; field level; growth; plant height; precision agriculture; rice; terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); LASER APPLICATIONS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

CROP MONITORING; FIELD LEVEL; PLANT HEIGHT; RICE; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84896285330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083671     Document Type: Article

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