Airborne hyperspectral images and ground-level optical sensors as assessment tools for maize nitrogen fertilization

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2940-2962

  Quemada, Miguel ^a   Gabriel, Jose Luis ^a   Zarco Tejada, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airborne images; Chlorophyll activity indices; Crop nitrogen status; Fertilizer recommendation; Fluorescence; Hyperspectral images; Narrow Band indices; Optical sensors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY INDEX; AIRBORNE IMAGES; CROP NITROGEN; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; NARROW BANDS;

CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; FLUORESCENCE; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); NITROGEN; OPTICAL SENSORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

EID: 84898065914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6042940     Document Type: Article

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