A comparative assessment of different modeling algorithms for estimating leaf nitrogen content in winter wheat using multispectral images from an unmanned aerial vehicle

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2018, Pages

  Zheng, Hengbiao ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Jiang, Jiale ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Cheng, Tao ^a   Tian, Yongchao ^a   Zhu, Yan ^a   Cao, Weixing ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Yao, Xia ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

LNC; Multispectral imagery; Non parametric regression; Radiative transfer model; UAV; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CROPS; DECISION TREES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NITROGEN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; TABLE LOOKUP; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VEGETATION INDEX;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 85058886907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10122026     Document Type: Article

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