articleAgricultural and Forest MeteorologyJul 1, 2019HYBRID OA

Assimilation of remote sensing into crop growth models: Current status and perspectives

China Meteorological Administration · Ministry of Natural Resources · +12 more institutions

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Abstract

Timely monitoring of crop lands is important in order to make agricultural activities more sustainable, as well as ensuring food security. The use of Earth Observation (EO) data allows crop monitoring at a range of spatial scales, but can be hampered by limitations in the data. Crop growth modelling, on the other hand, can be used to simulate the physiological processes that result in crop development. Data assimilation (DA) provides a way of blending the monitoring properties of EO data with the predictive and explanatory abilities of crop growth models. In this paper, we first provide a critique of both the advantages and disadvantages of both EO data and crop growth models. We use this to introduce a solid…

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