Assessing the potential of an algorithm based on mean climatic data to predict wheat yield

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 255-272

  Dumont, Benjamin ^a   Leemans, Vincent ^a   Ferrandis, Salvador ^a   Bodson, Bernard ^a   Destain, Jean Pierre ^b   Destain, Marie France ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b WALLOON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Proxy sensing; Real time; STICS model; Yield prediction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CROP YIELD; DATABASE; PREDICTION; REAL TIME; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84899618672     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-014-9346-9     Document Type: Article

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