Assessing multiple years' spatial variability of crop yields using satellite vegetation indices

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2019, Pages

  Ali, Abid ^a   Martelli, Roberta ^a   Lupia, Flavio ^b   Barbanti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CREA Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop rotation; Field spatial variability; Geostatistics; Grain yield prediction; Landsat imagery; Spectral vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; VEGETATION;

CROP ROTATION; GEO-STATISTICS; GRAIN YIELD; LANDSAT IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES;

CROPS;

EID: 85074205847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11202384     Document Type: Article

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