Forecasting wheat yield from weather data and modis ndvi using random forests for punjab province, Pakistan

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2017, Pages 4831-4854

  Saeed, Umer ^a   Dempewolf, Jan ^b   Becker Reshef, Inbal ^b   Khan, Ahmad ^b   Ahmad, Ashfaq ^a   Wajid, Syed Aftab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ERRORS; FOOD SUPPLY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AGRICULTURAL MARKETS; GROWING DEGREE DAYS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MONITORING FOODS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TEMPERATURE DATA;

FORECASTING;

CROP YIELD; FORECASTING METHOD; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATION; WHEAT;

PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 85040942689     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1323282     Document Type: Article

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