The application of geographic information system: Estimation of wheat yields in Shang Qiu County

Author

Yanning, Guan ; Xinnian, Zheng ; Qiuhua, Wu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Remote Sensing, Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

1561

Abstract

Estimation of crop yield can assist agricultural planners and growers select crops and cultivars for a region and find ways to increase food production. This study uses a geographic information system (ARC/INFO) to gain a suitable index for assessing the effect of agroclimatic resources, landuse and type of soil on wheat yield. In addition, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images were used to estimate wheat area. The study proposes to improve the way of estimation of wheat yield by using remote sensing. The study area is located at Shang Qiu County in China

Keywords

agriculture; geographic information systems; geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; ARC; ARC/INFO; China; GIS; INFO; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Shang Qiu County; agriculture; crop yield; geographic information system; multispectral image; optical; remote sensing; remote sensing measurement technique; vegetation mapping; wheat yield; Crops; Geographic Information Systems; Large Hadron Collider; Meteorological factors; Production; Remote sensing; Satellites; Soil; Vegetation mapping; Yield estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322770

Filename

322770