A comparison of two approaches for estimating the wheat nitrogen nutrition index using remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4527-4548

  Chen, Pengfei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nitrogen nutrition diagnosis; Nni; Remote sensing; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CALIBRATION; CROPS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NITROGEN; NUTRITION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; NITROGEN NUTRITION; NNI; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL METHODS; WINTER WHEAT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84937934157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404527     Document Type: Article

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