Classifying multiyear agricultural land use data from Mato Grosso using time-series MODIS vegetation index data

JC Brown, JH Kastens, AC Coutinho… - Remote Sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
MODIS 250-m NDVI and EVI datasets are now regularly used to classify regional-scale
agricultural land-use practices in many different regions of the globe, especially in the state …

[HTML][HTML] Applicability of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in index-based crop insurance design

CG Turvey, MK Mclaurin - Weather, Climate, and Society, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Index insurance is becoming increasingly popular because of its ability to provide low-cost,
relatively easy to implement agricultural insurance for vegetation types whose productivity …

Characterizing agricultural drought in the Karamoja subregion of Uganda with meteorological and satellite-based indices

C Nakalembe - Natural Hazards, 2018 - Springer
Karamoja is notoriously food insecure and has been in need of food aid for most years
during the last two decades. One of the main factors causing food insecurity is drought …

Basis risk in the pasture, rangeland, and forage insurance program: Evidence from California

JB Keller, TL Saitone - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural producers who are reliant upon rangelands and pasturelands are some of the
most vulnerable to weather‐related risk given their dependence on climate‐sensitive …

Remote sensing applications for insurance: A predictive model for pasture yield in the presence of systemic weather

C Brock Porth, L Porth, W Zhu, M Boyd… - North American …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A robust predictive model for crop yield is essential for designing a commercially viable
index-based insurance policy. Index-based insurance for crops is still at a relatively infant …

Interannual variability in dry mixed-grass prairie yield: A comparison of MODIS, SPOT, and field measurements

DC Wehlage, JA Gamon, D Thayer, DV Hildebrand - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing is often used to assess rangeland condition and biophysical parameters
across large areas. In particular, the relationship between the Normalized Difference …

Development of an index-based insurance product: validation of a forage production index derived from medium spatial resolution fCover time series

A Roumiguié, A Jacquin, G Sigel, H Poilvé… - GIScience & Remote …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
An index-based insurance is being developed to estimate and monitor forage production in
France in near real-time based on a forage production index (FPI) derived from the fraction …

[HTML][HTML] Estimación de biomasa y cobertura aérea usando radiometría e imágenes digitales a nivel de campo en pastizales y matorrales

E Chávez Castillo, F Paz Pellat… - Terra …, 2017 - scielo.org.mx
Para analizar la relación entre las reflectancias de la vegetación obtenidas mediante el uso
de sensores ópticos con la cobertura aérea y producción de biomasa de la misma, en el …

The impact of spatial interpolation techniques on spatial basis risk for weather insurance: An application to forage crops

M Boyd, B Porth, L Porth, D Turenne - North American Actuarial …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Weather index insurance for crops is at the developmental stage, however, this type of
insurance is particularly susceptible to the problem of spatial basis risk. Spatial basis risk …

Estimación de la capacidad de carga animal en agostaderos usando un índice de vegetación de pendientes normalizadas

A Villa-Herrera, F Paz-Pellat, MJ Pérez-Hernández… - Agrociencia, 2014 - scielo.org.mx
La estimación de la capacidad de carga animal es un requisito para el manejo ganadero
sustentable, por lo que es necesario el desarrollo de marcos teóricos y experimentales …