Developing a new Crop Circle active canopy sensor-based precision nitrogen management strategy for winter wheat in North China Plain

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 2-18

  Cao, Qiang ^a,b   Miao, Yuxin ^a   Li, Fei ^c   Gao, Xiaowei ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Lu, Dianjun ^a   Chen, Xinping ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crop Circle ACS 470 sensor; GreenSeeker sensor; In season nitrogen management; Nitrogen recommendation algorithm; Nitrogen use efficiency; Precision agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CROP YIELD; FIELD METHOD; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SENSOR; SOIL NUTRIENT; VILLAGE; WHEAT; WINTER;

CHINA; HEBEI; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84969922461     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-016-9456-7     Document Type: Article

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