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Earth observation reveals reduced winter wheat growth and the importance of plant available water during drought
Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Lukas Valentin Graf
Crop Science, Institute for Agricultural Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland
Tino Colombi
Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, United Kingdom
Juliane Hirte
Department of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Keller
Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland
Helge Aasen
Department of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland
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Our study showed that stress-related crop response to changing environmental conditions can be detected by monitoring crops using satellite images at the landscape level. This could be useful for farmers to identify when stresses occur. Our results also suggest that satellite imagery can be used to discover soil impacts on crop development at farm fields. The inclusion of soil properties in satellite image analyses could further improve the accuracy of the prediction of drought stress on crops.
Our study showed that stress-related crop response to changing environmental conditions can be...
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