Spatial variability analysis of within-field winter wheat nitrogen and grain quality using canopy fluorescence sensor measurements

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Song, Xiaoyu ^a,b   Yang, Guijun ^a   Yang, Chenghai ^b   Wang, Jihua ^a   Cui, Bei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fluorescence sensor; Grain protein content (GPC); Nitrogen balance index (NBI); Ordinary kriging analysis (OKA); Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

CROPS; FLUORESCENCE; GRADING; GRAIN GROWTH; INTERPOLATION; NITROGEN; PROTEINS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOILS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE SENSORS; GRAIN PROTEIN CONTENTS; NITROGEN BALANCE; ORDINARY KRIGING; WINTER WHEAT;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

EID: 85019363229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030237     Document Type: Article

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