Crop height variability detection in a single field by multi-temporal terrestrial laser scanning

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 296-312

  Hoffmeister, Dirk ^a   Waldhoff, Guido ^a   Korres, Wolfgang ^a   Curdt, Constanze ^a   Bareth, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop height; Crop surface models; RTK GPS; Spatial variability; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GPS; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LASER METHOD; NDVI; PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCANNER; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HORDEUM;

EID: 84945574661     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-015-9420-y     Document Type: Article

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