Establishment of plot-yield prediction models in soybean breeding programs using UAV-based hyperspectral remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2019, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Zhao, Jinming ^a   Yang, Guijun ^c   Liu, Jiangang ^c   Cao, Jiqiu ^a,b   Li, Chunyan ^a,b   Zhao, Xiaoqing ^c   Gai, Junyi ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Shofine Seed Technology Co Ltd   (China)

^c NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE   (China)

Author keywords

Determination coefficient (R2); Multiple linear regression; Plot yield prediction; Rootmean square error (RMSE); Soybean breeding; UAV based hyperspectral remote sensing; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOYBEAN BREEDING; VEGETATION INDEX; YIELD PREDICTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85076561476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11232752     Document Type: Article

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