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Tilly, Nora, Hoffmeister, Dirk ORCID: 0000-0002-8178-557X, Cao, Qiang, Lenz-Wiedemann, Victoria ORCID: 0000-0002-7966-0399, Miao, Yuxin and Bareth, Georg (2015). Transferability of Models for Estimating Paddy Rice Biomass from Spatial Plant Height Data. Agriculture-Basel, 5 (3). S. 538 - 561. BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2077-0472

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Abstract

It is known that plant height is a suitable parameter for estimating crop biomass. The aim of this study was to confirm the validity of spatial plant height data, which is derived from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), as a non-destructive estimator for biomass of paddy rice on the field scale. Beyond that, the spatial and temporal transferability of established biomass regression models were investigated to prove the robustness of the method and evaluate the suitability of linear and exponential functions. In each growing season of two years, three campaigns were carried out on a field experiment and on a farmer's conventionally managed field. Crop surface models (CSMs) were generated from the TLS-derived point clouds for calculating plant height with a very high spatial resolution of 1 cm. High coefficients of determination between CSM-derived and manually measured plant heights (R-2: 0.72 to 0.91) confirm the applicability of the approach. Yearly averaged differences between the measurements were similar to 7% and similar to 9%. Biomass regression models were established from the field experiment data sets, based on strong coefficients of determination between plant height and dry biomass (R-2: 0.66 to 0.86 and 0.65 to 0.84 for linear and exponential models, respectively). The spatial and temporal transferability of the models to the farmer's conventionally managed fields is supported by strong coefficients of determination between estimated and measured values (R-2: 0.60 to 0.90 and 0.56 to 0.85 for linear and exponential models, respectively). Hence, the suitability of TLS-derived spatial plant height as a non-destructive estimator for biomass of paddy rice on the field scale was verified and the transferability demonstrated.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Tilly, Nora UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hoffmeister, Dirk UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-557X UNSPECIFIED Cao, Qiang UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lenz-Wiedemann, Victoria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7966-0399 UNSPECIFIED Miao, Yuxin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bareth, Georg UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-395179
DOI:	10.3390/agriculture5030538
Journal or Publication Title:	Agriculture-Basel
Volume:	5
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 538 - 561
Date:	2015
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2077-0472
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Geosciences > Geographisches Institut
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language DIFFERENT GROWTH-STAGES; CROP SURFACE MODELS; VEGETATION INDEXES; NITROGEN STATUS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; LASER; LIDAR; DENSITY; CANOPY; REFLECTANCE Multiple languages Agronomy Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/39517