Pest management involves assessment of pest and crop biology at the population level and an understand'mg of the interaction of organisms at the molecular, cellular, tissue, plant, and population levels. These interactions frequently are sufficiently complex to require simphfication through modeling to allow objective management decisions. The disciplinary orientation of pest scientists often r...

This dataset contains interpolated and aggregated soil climate data of the region North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). The is provided for grids 1, 10, 25, 50 100 km resolutions. These represent spatial aggregations approximately 1 resolution 300 m raster. purpose this use as input crop models. It thus key relevant variables running Additionally, specifically designed to analyze effects scale in m...

As part of an Integrated Water Resource Assessment and Management project (IWRAM) in Northern Thailand, a Decision Support System is being constructed in order to provide guidelines for crop diversification and water allocation. The IWRAM software integrates a crop model with hydrological and economic models. Presented here is the integrated crop model, called CATCHCROP, which is capable of sim...

Insurance agents often provide crop hail damage estimates based on their personal experience and field samples, which are not always representative of the investigated field’s spatial variability. For these reasons, farmers insurance market ask for a reliable, objective, less labor-intensive method to determine losses. Integrating remote sensing modeling provides unique opportunity estimate dam...

Crop coefficient values are used to estimate crop evapotranspiration (ETc) for determining irrigation scheduling. Many important crop biophysical properties such as Percentage Vegetation Cover and Leaf Area Index can be estimated from remotely sensed Vegetation Index, in order to quantify real time vegetation growth dynamics. The objective of this study was to understand the effectiveness of ba...