Impact of sowing date on yield and water use efficiency of wheat analyzed through spatial modeling and FORMOSAT-2 images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5951-5979

  Duchemin, Benoit ^a   Fieuzal, Rémy ^a   Rivera, Miguel Augustin ^b   Ezzahar, Jamal ^c   Jarlan, Lionel ^a   Rodriguez, Julio César ^d   Hagolle, Olivier ^a   Watts, Christopher ^d  

^a CNES   (France)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^d Unidad de Terapia Infantil   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Crop model; Evapotranspiration; FORMOSAT; Irrigation; Remote sensing; Sowing; Water balance; Water use efficiency; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; EFFICIENCY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IRRIGATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REGIONAL PLANNING; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CROP MODEL; FORMOSAT; SOWING; WATER BALANCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WHEAT;

WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84930032716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505951     Document Type: Article

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