Estimation of winter wheat biomass and yield by combining the aquacrop model and field hyperspectral data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Jin, Xiuliang ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^b   Li, Zhenhai ^c,d   Xu, Xingang ^c,d   Yang, Guijun ^c,d   Wang, Jihua ^d  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^d NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE   (China)

Author keywords

AquaCrop model; Biomass; Particle swarm optimization; Spectral index; Winter wheat; Yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; ESTIMATION; FOOD SUPPLY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); REMOTE SENSING;

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL INDICES; WINTER WHEAT; YIELD;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 85002644909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8120972     Document Type: Article

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