Corn response to climate stress detected with satellite-based NDVI time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Ruoyu ^a   Cherkauer, Keith ^a   Bowling, Laura ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn NDVI climate stress relation; Risky cell detection; Temporal and spatial corn growth variability

Indexed keywords

CROPS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

CELL DETECTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CORN GROWTH; CORN NDVI-CLIMATE STRESS RELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LANDSAT-5 TM IMAGES; NDVI TIME SERIES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES;

PIXELS;

EID: 84971656995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040269     Document Type: Article

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