Contribution of remote sensing on crop models: A review

Journal of Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Kasampalis, Dimitrios A ^a   Alexandridis, Thomas K ^a   Deva, Chetan ^b   Challinor, Andrew ^b   Moshou, Dimitrios ^a   Zalidis, Georgios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop models; Crop yield; Earth observation; Fusion; Spatio temporal scale; Vegetation indices; Yield prediction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; DECISION MAKING; FOOD SUPPLY; FORECASTING;

CROP GROWTH MODEL; CROP MODELING; CROP YIELD; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; REMOTE-SENSING; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; VEGETATION INDEX; YIELD PREDICTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85056495240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2313433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jimaging4040052     Document Type: Review

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