Intercomparison of Soil Moisture, Evaporative Stress, and Vegetation Indices for Estimating Corn and Soybean Yields over the U.S.

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1328-1343

  Mladenova, Iliana E ^a,b   Bolten, John D ^a   Crow, Wade T ^c   Anderson, Martha C ^c   Hain, Christopher R ^b   Johnson, David M ^d   Mueller, Rick ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Research and Development Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; crop assessment; crop yield; evapotranspiration (ET); national agricultural statistics service (NASS); soil moisture; soybean; water deficiency; yield forecasting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERCOMPARISONS; LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RELATIVE UTILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MAIZE; MONITORING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOYBEAN; VEGETATION INDEX;

UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85009876944     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2639338     Document Type: Article

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