A precision agriculture approach for durum wheat yield assessment using remote sensing data and yield mapping

Agronomy

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2019, Pages

  Toscano, Piero ^a   Castrignanò, Annamaria ^b   Di Gennaro, Salvatore Filippo ^a   Vonella, Alessandro Vittorio ^b   Ventrella, Domenico ^b   Matese, Alessandro ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment   (Italy)

Author keywords

Durum wheat; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing; Yield mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85070195449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy9080437     Document Type: Article

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