Potential of RapidEye and WorldView-2 satellite data for improving rice nitrogen status monitoring at different growth stages

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Huang, Shanyu ^a,b   Miao, Yuxin ^a   Yuan, Fei ^c   Gnyp, Martin L ^d   Yao, Yinkun ^a   Cao, Qiang ^e   Wang, Hongye ^a   Lenz Wiedemann, Victoria I S ^a,b   Bareth, Georg ^a,b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Yara International ASA   (Germany)

^e NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FORMOSAT 2; Nitrogen nutrition index; Precision nitrogen management; Red edge; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; NUTRITION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

FORMOSAT-2; NITROGEN MANAGEMENT; NITROGEN NUTRITION; RED EDGE; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

NITROGEN;

EID: 85019344733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030227     Document Type: Article

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