Comparison of crop canopy reflectance sensors used to identify sugarcane biomass and nitrogen status

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-28

  Amaral, Lucas R ^a   Molin, José P ^a   Portz, Gustavo ^a   Finazzi, Felipe B ^a   Cortinove, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

NDVI; Precision agriculture; Proximal sensing; Remote sensing; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CHLOROPHYLL; CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NDVI; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SAMPLING; SENSOR; SUGAR CANE; VIABILITY;

EID: 84921050873     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-014-9377-2     Document Type: Article

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