Rice yield estimation using remote sensing and simulation model

Remote sensing techniques have the potential to provide information on agricultural crops quantitstively,instantaneously and above all nondestrctively over large areas.Crop simulation models describe the relationship between physiological process in plants and environmental growing conditions.The integration between remote sensing data and crop growth simulation model is an important trent for yield estirmation and prediction,since remote sensing can provide information on the actual status of the agricultural crop.In this study,a new model(Rice-SRS) was developed based mainly on ORYZA1 model and modified to accept remote sensing data as input from different sources.The modelc an accept three kinds of NDVI,data.NOAA AVHRR(LAC)-NDVI,NOAA AVHRR(GAC)-NDVI and radiometric measurements-HDVI,The integration between NOAA AVHRR(LAC) data and simulation model as applied to Rice-SPS resulted in accurate estimates for rice yield in the Shaoxing area.reduced the estimating error to 1.027%,0.794% and (-0.787%) for early,single,and late season repectively.Utilizing NDVI data derived from NOAA AVHRR(GAC) as input in Rice-SRS can yield good estimation for rice yield with the average error (-7.43%) .Testing the new model for radiometric meassurements showed that the average estimation error for 10 varieties under early rice conditions was less than 1%.