A mobile sensor for leaf area index estimation from canopy light transmittance in wheat crops

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-33

  Schirrmann, Michael ^a   Hamdorf, André ^a,b   Giebel, Antje ^a   Dammer, Karl Heinz ^a   Garz, Andreas ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

LAI; Precision agriculture; Proximal sensing; Radiative transfer; Wheat canopy

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DECISION MAKING; IRRADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

BIOPHYSICAL MODELLING; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAI; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PROXIMAL SENSING; WHEAT CANOPY;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84943593812     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.09.005     Document Type: Article

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