Wheat yield forecasting for Punjab Province from vegetation index time series and historic crop statistics

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9653-9675

  Dempewolf, Jan ^a   Adusei, Bernard ^b   Becker Reshef, Inbal ^a   Hansen, Matthew ^a   Potapov, Peter ^a   Khan, Ahmad ^a   Barker, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Radius Technology Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Forecast; MODIS; Production; WDRVI; Wheat; Yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DATA HANDLING; PRODUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL MARKETS; MODIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRODUCTION FORECASTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA; WDRVI; WHEAT; YIELD;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84923543554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109653     Document Type: Article

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