Estimating leaf nitrogen concentration in heterogeneous crop plants from hyperspectral reflectance

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 4652-4667

  Shi, Tiezhu ^a,b   Wang, Junjie ^a,b   Liu, Huizeng ^a,b   Wu, Guofeng ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFRARED DEVICES; LINEAR REGRESSION; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT; HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.); SUCCESSIVE PROJECTIONS ALGORITHM; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

CROPS;

ALGORITHM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PLANT; LEAF; NDVI; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; GLYCINE MAX; ORYZA SATIVA; SESAMUM INDICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84943410280     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1088676     Document Type: Article

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