Combined use of agro-climatic and very high-resolution remote sensing information for crop monitoring

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 72, Issue , 2018, Pages 66-75

  Ballesteros, R ^a   Ortega, J F ^b   Hernandez, D ^b   del Campo, A ^b   Moreno, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomass prediction; Growing degree days (GDD); Maize; Reference evapotranspiration (ETo); Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL SURVEY; ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAIZE; MONITORING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PREDICTION; REFERENCE SAMPLE; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION INDEX;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85062172860     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2018.05.019     Document Type: Article

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