Phenotyping conservation agriculture management effects on ground and aerial remote sensing assessments of maize hybrids performance in Zimbabwe

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Gracia Romero, Adrian ^a   Vergara Díaz, Omar ^a   Thierfelder, Christian ^b   Cairns, Jill E ^b   Kefauver, Shawn C ^a   Araus, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CIMMYT   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Africa; Conservation agriculture; Maize; Multispectral; Remote sensing; RGB; UAV

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; DATA HANDLING; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOIL CONSERVATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

AERIAL REMOTE SENSING; AFRICA; CONSERVATION AGRICULTURES; MAIZE; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REMOTE SENSING APPROACHES; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85042537003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10020349     Document Type: Article

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