The shared and unique values of optical, fluorescence, thermal and microwave satellite data for estimating large-scale crop yields

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 199, Issue , 2017, Pages 333-349

  Guan, Kaiyu ^a   Wu, Jin ^b   Kimball, John S ^c   Anderson, Martha C ^d   Frolking, Steve ^e   Li, Bo ^a   Hain, Christopher R ^f   Lobell, David B ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop yield; Fluorescence; Microwave; Optical; Partial least square regression6; Radar; Thermal

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED DEVICES; MICROWAVES; NASA; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; VEGETATION; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

CROP YIELD; MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA; OPTICAL; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; SOLAR-INDUCED FLUORESCENCES; THERMAL; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

AMSR-E; BACKSCATTER; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; GOME; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODIS; NSCAT; OCO; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL METHOD; QUIKSCAT; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; VEGETATION INDEX;

CORN BELT; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85026512271     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.043     Document Type: Article

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