In-season estimation of rice nitrogen status with an active crop canopy sensor

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4403-4413

  Yao, Yinkun ^a   Miao, Yuxin ^b   Cao, Qiang ^c   Wang, Hongye ^d   Gnyp, Martin L ^e   Bareth, Georg ^a   Khosla, Rajiv ^b   Yang, Wen ^b   Liu, Fengyan ^a   Liu, Cheng ^c  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Jiansanjiang Institute of Agricultural Sciences Fujin   (China)

^e Qixing Modern Agriculture Development Center   (China)

Author keywords

Active crop sensor; biomass; nitrogen nutrition index (NNI); plant nitrogen concentration; plant nitrogen uptake; precision nitrogen management

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; NUTRITION; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN MANAGEMENT; NITROGEN NUTRITION; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RATIO VEGETATION INDICES; RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.);

NITROGEN;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; NDVI; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RICE; SENSOR;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG; JIANSANJIANG;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84921032128     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2322659     Document Type: Article

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