Mapping wheat nitrogen uptake from RapidEye vegetation indices

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 429-451

  Magney, Troy S ^a,b   Eitel, Jan U H ^b   Vierling, Lee A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen content; Nitrogen use efficiency; Normalized difference red edge index (NDRE); RapidEye; Wheat remote sensing

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; LEAF AREA INDEX; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RAPIDEYE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WHEAT;

IDAHO; PALOUSE; UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84981165049     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-016-9463-8     Document Type: Article

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