Assessment of rice leaf chlorophyll content using visible bands at different growth stages at both the leaf and canopy scale

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-45

  Saberioon, M M ^a   Amin, M S M ^a   Anuar, A R ^a   Gholizadeh, A ^b   Wayayok, A ^a   Khairunniza Bejo, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conventional digital camera; Image analysis; Low altitude remote sensing; Nitrogen; Principal component analysis; Rice

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHLOROPHYLL A; FARMING SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEAF; NITROGEN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RICE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EID: 84904472649     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.03.018     Document Type: Article

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