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... Groundnut, commonly known as peanut, is a significant oil, food and feed legume crop grown in all seasons in Tamil Nadu, including kharif, rabi and summer and it is cultivated both under irrigated and rainfed conditions in all the seasons at Thiruvannamlai district. One of the most important applications of remote sensing in agriculture is a crop acreage and production estimation (CAPE). The CAPE' ...
acreage, etc ; assets; farms; phenology; ratooning; sugarcane; watersheds; India; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Crop mapping and acreage estimation are the simplest yet the most critical issues in agriculture. Remote sensing technology has been extensively used in the past few decades for executing these tasks. The objective of this study is to map sugarcane fields at a catchment level and segregate the plant and ratoon fields using the freely available Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The study is carried o ...
crop acreage, etc ; agricultural land; environment; normalized difference vegetation index; India; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The present study was conducted to analyze cropping intensity of four blocks (Mogra-Chinsurah, Polba-Dadpur, Singur and Haripal) of the Gangetic alluvial zone of India using multi-dated Sentinel-2 data in 2018–19 cropping year. It was observed that during peak growing stage all crops ascribed higher Normalized Difference Vegetation Index NDVI values (0.4 to 0.73) and NDVI became as low as 0.06 whe ...
acreage; crop acreage, etc ; Triticum aestivum; annuals; exports; food availability; geographic information systems; grain yield; issues and policy; net primary productivity; observational studies; satellites; summer; support vector machines; wheat; India; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Globally, estimating crop acreage and yield is one of the most critical issues that policy and decision makers need for assessing annual crop productivity and food supply. Nowadays, satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) can enable the estimation of these crop production parameters over large geographic areas. The present work aims to estimate the wheat (Triticum aestivum ...
acreage, etc ; agricultural land; ecosystem services; evolution; forest land; grasslands; hydrology; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The Grain for Green Project (GGP) has influenced Shaanxi Province’s land-use pattern, resulting in a shift in ecosystem service value (ESV). Exploring the spatial and temporal evolution of the pattern of land use and ESV in Shaanxi Province, before and after the project’s implementation, can give a theoretical foundation for regional land-use planning. For this study, we used the transfer matrix a ...
acreage, etc ; biodiversity conservation; corn; ecological economics; environmental protection; food safety; models; Spain; Show all 8 Subjects
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... It has been more than two decades since genetic engineered (GE) corn has been introduced in the United States and Spain. Despite the wide scale adoption of GE corn, (92% of planted acreage in the US in 2017), biodiversity conservation, environmental protection goals, and food safety continue to surface as potential risk factors. We developed a macromarketing framework to provide a linkage between ...
acreage, etc ; agroforestry; case studies; forage; milk production; range management; satellites; supply balance; India; Show all 9 Subjects
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... In India, the adequate availability of green fodder is crucial for better milk production. However, the supply and demand gaps are huge for green fodder. To address this issue, an assessment of rabi fodder crops was conducted in Madhya Pradesh state of India. Satellite based assessment technique was used for fodder crops acreage estimation using a hybrid approach of classification method for rabi ...
acreage, etc ; carbon; case studies; climate; cost effectiveness; risk management; roads; sea level; Maryland; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal flooding in low-lying rural coastal areas will significantly impact residents’ daily lives. The need to understand who may be affected and when is widely acknowledged in order to enable inclusive and cost-effective adaptation planning. Presently, planning resources generally focus on housing impacts; when will a house or neighborhood be inundated and which adaptati ...
acreage, etc ; food security; groundwater; groundwater extraction; irrigation; sustainable agriculture; water shortages; wheat; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Groundwater depletion threatens global water and food security. Despite local successes in reducing groundwater extraction, the potential for transitioning currently irrigated systems to rainfed systems to address both production and groundwater use problems remains poorly understood at the national level. Here, we consider wheat production in China, which strongly benefits from groundwater irriga ...
Brandt Berghuis; Andrew Friskop; Michelle Gilley; Jessica Halvorson; Bryan Hansen; Scott Fitterer; Dave Carruth; Blaine Schatz; Bob Benson; Ryan Humann; Samuel Markell
acreage, etc ; Helianthus annuus; Puccinia helianthi; fungicide resistance; fungicides; hybrids; oilseeds; plant health; sweets; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Sunflower rust, caused by Puccinia helianthi, is an economically and globally important disease of sunflower. Two types of sunflower are produced in the U.S. Northern Great Plains: the oilseed type and the confection type. Although approximately 80% of the acreage in this region is planted as the oilseed-type sunflower, fungicide efficacy and timing studies have been conducted primarily on the mor ...
acreage, etc ; agricultural machinery and equipment; human resources; humans; mathematical models; mathematical theory; Ukraine; Show all 7 Subjects
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... As the requirements for the quality of agricultural machinery and its working conditions increase, so do the demands on its maintainability, in particular its reliability. Failure for technical reasons or due to any external factors will result in the non-achievement of the goals set, and thus in a loss of performance. Today, as a rule, there is an insufficient level of reliability of agricultural ...
acreage, etc ; betel; crop failure; crop insurance; cropland; data collection; leaves; rice; satellites; summer; India; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Crop acreage analysis and yield estimation are of prime importance in field-level agricultural monitoring and management. This enables prudent decision making during any crop failure event and for ensuing crop insurance. The free availability of the high resolution Sentinel-2 satellite datasets has created new possibilities for mapping and monitoring agricultural lands in this regard. In the prese ...
acreage, etc ; forest land; forest ownership; forest policy; habitats; private forestry; prognosis; property tax; wood; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Across the U.S.A., as across many countries, families, individuals, trusts, estates, and family partnerships, collectively referred to as family forest ownerships, own a plurality of the forestland. The Montréal Process Criteria and Indicators (C&I) were used to assess the sustainability of these lands. There are currently 109 million ha of family forestland across the conterminous U.S.A., but thi ...
acreage, etc ; Crassostrea virginica; coasts; lobsters; markets; oysters; seafoods; surface temperature; Canada; Maine; Northwest Atlantic; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Tidal impoundments have been used for centuries to enhance aquaculture production worldwide. Here, we examine the potential for lobster pounds, tidal impoundments common to Maine, USA, and Atlantic Canada, to serve as boundary objects that bridge the gap between the fishing and aquaculture industries. Proponents of coastal-economic diversification have heralded aquaculture as a means of creating n ...
acreage, etc ; Landsat; land cover; landscape ecology; landscapes; population growth; socioeconomics; spatial data; urbanization; vegetation; Haiti; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The landscape of the Port-au-Prince agglomeration in the Republic of Haiti has undergone profound changes linked to (peri-)urban expansion supported by rapid demographic growth. We quantify the land cover dynamics along the urban–rural gradient of the Port-au-Prince agglomeration using Landsat images from 1986, 1998, 1999, 2010, and 2021 coupled with geographic information systems and landscape ec ...
acreage, etc ; arid zones; carbon dioxide; cropland; decline; drought; evolution; land use; risk reduction; vegetation; China; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Drought seriously restricts people’s lives and social–economic development. An accurate understanding of the evolution of drought characteristics and future changes in cultivated land exposure can reduce the risk of drought. There is evidence that increased CO₂ concentrations alter the physiological properties of vegetation and, thus, affect drought evolution. In this study, both changes and diffe ...
acreage, etc ; USDA; agricultural machinery and equipment; death; farms; law enforcement; models; risk; rural health; surveys; weather; Show all 11 Subjects
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... PURPOSE: Rural public roads experience higher crash fatality rates than other roadways, with agricultural equipment adding greater risk of injury and fatality. This study set out to describe farmers’ experiences with farm equipment crashes and predictors of crashes at the farm level. METHODS: A survey of farm operators was conducted in 9 Midwestern states (IL, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, and WI) i ...
acreage, etc ; agronomy; databases; human health; issues and policy; politics; protein content; spring; systematic review; temperature; Europe; Show all 11 Subjects
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... In Europe, there is an increasing interest in pulses both for their beneficial effects in cropping systems and for human health. However, despite these advantages, the acreage dedicated to pulses has been declining and their diversity has reduced, particularly in European temperate regions, due to several social and economic factors. This decline has stimulated a political debate in the EU on the ...
... The timely and accurate acquisition of winter wheat acreage is crucial for food security. This study investigated the feasibility of extracting the spatial distribution map of winter wheat in Henan Province by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR, Sentinel-1A) and optical (Sentinel-2) images. Firstly, the SAR images were aggregated based on the growth period of winter wheat, and the optical images ...
acreage, etc ; agronomy; clay; clay fraction; cover crops; livestock; nitrates; nitrogen; organic carbon; spring; sustainable development; water quality; France; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Despite the benefits associated with winter soil cover before sowing a spring crop, this practice is adopted unevenly by farmers. The goal of this paper is to identify and hierarchize the main soil-climate factors that hinder the adoption of cover crops. It is the first study to carry out this analysis at the scale of France, which is a country with a wide variety of soil types and climates. For t ...