Estimating pasture quality of fresh vegetation based on spectral slope of mixed data of dry and fresh vegetation-method development

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 8045-8066

  Lugassi, Rachel ^a   Chudnovsky, Alexandra ^b   Zaady, Eli ^c   Dvash, Levana ^c   Goldshleger, Naftaly ^a,d  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crude protein (CP); Fresh vegetation; Neutral detergent fiber (NDF); Pasture quality; Reflectance spectroscopy; Spectral slope

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CRUDE PROTEINS; METHOD DEVELOPMENT; NEUTRAL DETERGENT FIBER; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SPECTRAL SLOPES;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84933555920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70608045     Document Type: Article

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