An approach to precise nitrogen management using hand-held crop sensor measurements and winter wheat yield mapping in a mediterranean environment

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 5504-5517

  Quebrajo, Lucía ^a   Pérez Ruiz, Manuel ^a   Rodriguez Lizana, Antonio ^a   Agüera, Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

NDVI; Winter wheat; Yield estimation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AGRONOMY; CORRELATION METHODS; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENTS; VEGETATION;

APPARENT SOIL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; VARIABLE RATE FERTILIZERS; WINTER WHEAT; YIELD ESTIMATION;

CROPS;

EID: 84928684027     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150305504     Document Type: Article

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