Spatial pattern of windbreak effects on maize growth evaluated by an unmanned aerial vehicle in Hokkaido, northern Japan

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 1133-1145

  Iwasaki, Kenta ^a   Torita, Hiroyuki ^a   Abe, Tomoyuki ^a   Uraike, Takafumi ^a   Touze, Marie ^b   Fukuchi, Minoru ^a   Sato, Hirokazu ^a   Iijima, Toshimasa ^a   Imaoka, Kouichi ^a   Igawa, Hisashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^b National Livestock Breeding Center Niikappu Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

NDVI; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing; Shelterbelt; Soil temperature; Spatial yield variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DRY MATTER; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; MAIZE; NDVI; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SHELTERBELT; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNMANNED VEHICLE; YIELD RESPONSE;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85043372950     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-018-0217-7     Document Type: Article

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