Estimating Crop Yields at the Field Level Using Landsat and Modis Products
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Remote sensing can be used for yield estimation prior to harvest at the field level to provide helpful information for agricultural decision making. This study was undertaken in Polkovice, located at low elevations in the Czech Republic. From 2014-2016, two datasets of satellite imagery were used: the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and
Landsat 8 datasets. Satellite data were compared with yields and other observations at the level of land blocks. Winter oilseed rape, winter wheat and spring barley yield data, representing the crops planted over the analyzed period, were used for comparison. In 2016, a more detailed analysis was conducted. We tested a relationship between remote sensing data and the spatial yield variability measured by a yield monitor from a combine harvester. Correlations varied from approximately r = 0.4 to r = 0.7 with the highest correlation (r = 0.74) between yield and the Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index collected from a drone. Vegetation indices from both Landsat 8 and the MODIS showed a positive relationship with yields for the compared period. The highest correlation was between yield and the Enhanced Vegetation Index (r = 0.8) while the lowest was between yield and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index from MODIS (r = 0.1).
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Bibliographic Details
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Main Author
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František Jurečka
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Other Authors
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Vojtěch Lukas
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Petr Hlavinka
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Daniela Semerádová
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Zdeněk Žalud, 1965-
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Miroslav Trnka, 1976-
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Document Type
- Articles
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Physical Description
- 7 ilustrací
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Published in
- Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis. -- ISSN 1211-8516. -- Roč. 66, č. 5 (2018), s. 1141-1150
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Item Description
- 3 grafy, 1 mapa, 3 tabulky
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Bibliography
- Seznam literatury na s. 1149-1150,
