Using satellite data into productivity model

A methodology for a combined use of normalised difference vegetation index and CORINE land cover data for crop yield monitoring and forecasting. A case study on Spain

“…Some efforts have been recently made within MARS to extract information from the NDVI, which can be linked to crops. In this framework two major lines are being followed: the derivation of growth parameters through energy balance models [14] and the derivation of indicators to fit statistical models [3,8,18,20,25]. A challenge in both the approaches is the decomposition of the NDVI vegetation mixed values into more reliable values for single vegetation targets.…”