Estimating cotton nitrogen nutrition status using leaf greenness and ground cover information

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7007-7028

  Muharam, Farrah Melissa ^a,b   Maas, Stephen J ^a   Bronson, Kevin F ^c   Delahunty, Tina ^d  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy; Ground cover; Leaf; Nitrogen; Scene; Spectroradiometer

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; NITROGEN;

CANOPY; GROUND COVERS; LEAF; SCENE; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS;

COTTON;

EID: 84933557288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607007     Document Type: Article

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