Green fractional vegetation cover (fc) is an important phenotypic factor in the fields of
agriculture, forestry, and ecology. Spatially explicit monitoring of fc via relative vegetation …

The current study aims at reviewing and providing advances on methods for estimating and
applying crop coefficients from observations of ground cover and vegetation height. The …

The fraction of green canopy cover (CC) is an important feature commonly used to
characterize crop growth and for calibration of crop and hydrological models. It is well …

Crop yield estimation is a major issue of crop monitoring which remains particularly
challenging in developing countries due to the problem of timely and adequate data …

As the global population continues to increase, projected to reach an estimated 9.7 billion
people by 2050, there will be a growing demand for food production and agricultural …

Remote sensing via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is becoming a very important tool for
augmenting traditional spaceborne and airborne remote sensing techniques. Commercial …

Due to current global population growth, resource shortages, and climate change, traditional
agricultural models face major challenges. Precision agriculture (PA), as a way to realize the …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) content is of critical importance in managing agricultural fields
and understanding carbon fluxes at various scales. At regional and global scales, digital …

Rapid acquisition and mapping of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values is
essential for a timely evaluation of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in sustainable agriculture …

High spatial and spectral resolution (H 2) imagery collected by unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) systems is an important data source for precise crop classification. Although this data …