Improving winter wheat yield estimation from the CERES-Wheat model to assimilate leaf area index with different assimilation methods and spatio-temporal scales

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Li, He ^a   Chen, Zhongxin ^b   Liu, Gaohuan ^a   Jiang, Zhiwei ^c   Huang, Chong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c National Meteorological Information Centre   (China)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Crop model; Four dimensional variational; Leaf area index; Particle filter; Spatio temporal; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TARGET TRACKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASSIMILATION; CROP MODEL; FOUR DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL; LEAF AREA INDEX; PARTICLE FILTER; SPATIO TEMPORAL; UNCERTAINTIES;

CROPS;

EID: 85019884577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030190     Document Type: Article

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