Toward a satellite-based system of sugarcane yield estimation and forecasting in smallholder farming conditions: A case study on reunion island

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6620-6635

  Morel, Julien ^a   Todoroff, Pierre ^a   Bégué, Agnès ^b   Bury, Aurore ^c   Martiné, Jean François ^d   Petit, Michel ^e  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UMR TETIS   (France)

^c Syndicat du Sucre de la Réunion ^*  (France)

^d Research Unit Agroecology and Sustainable intensification of Annual Crops   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Model; Remote sensing; Sugarcane; Yield estimation

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ESTIMATION; MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SUGAR CANE; SATELLITES;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; GROWING CONDITIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SATELLITE-BASED SYSTEM; YIELD ESTIMATION;

SATELLITES; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84904479640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6076620     Document Type: Article

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