Spectral slope as an indicator of pasture quality

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 256-274

  Lugassi, Rachel ^a   Chudnovsky, Alexandra ^b   Zaady, Eli ^c   Dvash, Levana ^c   Goldshleger, Naftaly ^a,d  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Metabolic energy concentration (MEC); Neutral detergent fiber (NDF); Pasture quality; Protein; Reflectance spectroscopy; Spectral slope

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METABOLISM; PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

METABOLIC ENERGY; NEUTRAL DETERGENT FIBER; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION; REAL TIME EVALUATION; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL SLOPES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84920842656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100256     Document Type: Article

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