Estimating Cropland Development by the Use of Satellite Imagery (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Estimating Cropland Development by the Use of Satellite Imagery (Classic Reprint) written by Linda Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Estimating Cropland Development by the Use of Satellite Imagery The lacie project, the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment, was a cooperative project of the u.s. Department of Agriculture (usda), the national.aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa) of the u.s. Department of Commerce. It was initiated to develop, test, and evaluate a system for predicting area, yield, and production estimates for ma jor wheat producing areas of the world through the combined use of satellite, weather, climate, and historical agricultural data (lacie, The objective of lacie was to estimate the production of wheat on a country-by - country basis. Aerial extent of wheat was derived from a computer assisted analysis of Landsat data while yield was estimated from statistical models which relate crop yield to local meteorological conditions, notably precipitation and temperature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.