Exploring the possibilities of remote yield estimation using crop water requirements for area yield index insurance in a data-scarce dryland

The possibilities for dryland crop yield improvement in India's semi-arid regions-Observations from the field

Estimation of crop yield distribution and Insurance Premium using Shrinkage Estimator: A Hierarchical Bayes and Small Area Estimation Approach

Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Annual Meeting,Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012. Copyright 2012 by Sebastain N. Awondo,Gauri S. Datta,Octavio A. Ramirez, and Esendugue G. Fonsah. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice...

Automated Crop Yield Estimation for Apple Orchards

Crop yield estimation is an important task in apple orchard management. The current manual sampling-based yield estimation is time-consuming, labor-intensive and inaccurate. To deal with this challenge, we developed a computer vision-based system for automated, rapid and accurate yield estimation. The system uses a two-camera stereo rig for image acquisition. It works at nighttime with controll...

Use of Remote Sensing for Crop Yield and Area Estimates in the Southern of Brazil

The purpose of this paper is to describe the main actions undertaken by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGSUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) in activities related to crop monitoring and forecasting in Rio Grande do Sul State, the most southern state in Brazil. First the importance of agricultural activity is placed in the context of the state, showing grain production da...

the test for adverse selection in life insurance market: the case of mellat insurance company

انتخاب نامساعد یکی از مشکلات اساسی در صنعت بیمه است. که ابتدا در سال 1960، توسط روتشیلد واستیگلیتز مورد بحث ومطالعه قرار گرفت ازآن موقع تاکنون بسیاری از پژوهشگران مدل های مختلفی را برای تجزیه و تحلیل تقاضا برای صنعت بیمه عمر که تماما ناشی از عدم قطعیت در این صنعت میباشد انجام داده اند .وهدف از آن پیدا کردن شرایطی است که تحت آن شرایط انتخاب یا کنار گذاشتن یک بیمه گزار به نفع و یا زیان شرکت بیمه ...