Satellite detection of cover crops and their effects on crop yield in the Midwestern United States

The practice of planting winter cover crops has seen renewed interest as a solution to environmental issues with the modern maize- and soybean-dominated row crop production system of the US Midwest. We examine whether cover cropping patterns can be assessed at scale using publicly available satellit...

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Main Authors: Christopher A Seifert, George Azzari, David B Lobell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac4c8