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2008

Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering

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Detection Of Soil Properties With Airborne Hyperspectral Measurements Of Bare Fields, William R. Detar, J. H. Chesson, J. V. Penner, J. C. Ojala Dec 2007

Detection Of Soil Properties With Airborne Hyperspectral Measurements Of Bare Fields, William R. Detar, J. H. Chesson, J. V. Penner, J. C. Ojala

William R DeTar

ABSTRACT. Remote sensing with aircraft‐based sensors can provide the fine resolution required for site‐specific farming. The within‐field spatial distribution of some soil properties was found by using multiple linear regression to select the best combinations of wave bands, taken from among a full set of 60 narrow bands in the wavelength range of 429 to 1010 nm. The resulting regression equations made it possible to calculate the value of the soil property at every pixel, with a spatial resolution of 1.2 m. Both surface and subsurface samples of soil were taken from the center of each of 321 equal‐sized grids …