Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Agricultural remote sensing has an enormous potential impact on agribusiness and the international commodity trade through the development of systems to monitor crops and yields on the national and international scale. This volume reviews the achievements of remote sensing in agriculture, establishes the current state-of-the-art and looks at future developments. The following themes are addressed - opportunities for remote sensing, principles of remote sensing as applied to agriculture, including logistic considerations and fundamental spectral characteristics of vegetation, the estimation of biomass and productivity, effects of stress and its detection, discrimination and monitoring and new techniques in applying remote sensing.