use of remote sensing to monitor crop residue coverage and tillage intensity

Remote sensing of crop residue cover and soil tillage intensity

Management of plant litter or crop residues in agricultural fields is an important consideration for reducing soil erosion and increasing soil organic C. Current methods of quantifying crop residue cover are inadequate for characterizing the spatial variability of residue cover within fields or across large regions. Our objectives were to evaluate several spectral indices for measuring crop res...

An Improved ASTER Index for Remote Sensing of Crop Residue

Unlike traditional ground-based methodology, remote sensing allows for the rapid estimation of crop residue cover (fR). While the Cellulose Absorption Index (CAI) is ideal for fR estimation, a new index, the Shortwave Infrared Normalized Difference Residue Index (SINDRI), utilizing ASTER bands 6 and 7, is proposed for future multispectral sensors and would be less costly to implement. SINDRI pe...

Multispectral satellite mapping of crop residue cover and tillage intensity in Iowa

Evaluation of Tillage, Nitrogen Fertilizer and Crop Residue Management on some Agronomic Traits of Soybean

This study setout to investigate the effect of wheat residue, tillage, and nitrogen fertilizer management on some agronomic traits of soybean as a split split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications. The main plots included wheat residue management: collecting and leaving residue and sub plot included tillage (without tillage and conventional tillage), and the sub...

Crop Residue Decomposition in No-Tillage Small-Grain Fields

wind erosion. Soil microenvironments are different in fields that have surface-crop residues than in tilled fields Conservation tillage fields provide different environments for biowith incorporated residues. Natural-resource simulation logical and chemical processes than tilled fields. Our understanding of decomposition does not adequately account for post-harvest residue models that address s...

Remote Sensing for Crop Management

Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and various government agencies and private institutions have provided a great deal of fundamental information relating spectral reflectance and thermal emittance properties of soils and crops to their agronomic and biophysical characteristics. This knowledge has facilitated the development and use of various remote sensing methods for non...