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Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Estimation of Agricultural Crop Biomass Water Equivalent

This book is published open access under a CC BY 3.0 IGO license. This open access book provides methods for the estimation of Biomass Water Equivalent (BEW), an essential step for improving the accuracy of area-wide soil moisture by cosmic-ray neutron sensors (CRNS). Three techniques are explained...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wahbi, Ammar, Heng, Lee (Author), Dercon, Gerd (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Subjects:
Environment
Water
Environmental Sciences
Agriculture
Hydrology
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Summary
  • 2. In-Situ Destructive Sampling
  • 2.1 The Concept of Representivity
  • 2.2 Plant Sampling Pattern and Design
  • 2.3 Biomass Water Equivalent
  • 2.4 Conclusions
  • 3. Remote Sensing via Satellite Imagery Analysis
  • 3.1 Photo-Reflective Properties of Plants
  • 3.2 Satellite Image Analysis
  • 3.3 Conclusions
  • 4. Estimate of Biomass Water Equivalent via the Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor
  • 4.1 The role of Biomass in the CRNS Calibration
  • 4.2 Relationship between Neutrons and Crop Biomass
  • 4.3 Dire4ct Relationship between Neutrons and Biomass
  • 4.4 Conclusions

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