Remote sensing for irrigation of horticultural crops

Horticulturae

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Alvino, Arturo ^a   Marino, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop water status; Crop water stress index (CWSI); Evapotranspiration (ET); Platforms; Sensors; Time temperature threshold (TTT); Vegetation indices (VIs); Water use efficiency (WUE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046108403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23117524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae3020040     Document Type: Review

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