A combination of plant NDVI and LiDAR measurements improve the estimation of pasture biomass in tall fescue (festuca arundinacea var. fletcher)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Schaefer, Michael T ^a,b   Lamb, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active optical sensor (AOS); LiDAR; Pasture biomass; Tall fescue

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION; VALUE ENGINEERING; VEGETATION;

ACTIVE OPTICAL SENSORS; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTICAL REFLECTANCE; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR OF PREDICTIONS; TALL FESCUE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84962608863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020109     Document Type: Article

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