China is a large grain producer and consumer. Thus, obtaining information about the cropping intensity (CI) in cultivated land, as well as understanding the intensified utilization of cultivated land, is important to ensuring an increased grain produ...
Global food demand will increase over the next few decades, and sustainable agricultural intensification on current cropland may be a preferred option to meet this demand. Mapping cropping intensity with remote sensing data is of great importance for...
Soil erosion within agricultural landscapes has significant environmental and economic impacts and is strongly driven by reduced residue cover in agricultural fields. Large-area soil erosion models such as the Daily Erosion Project are important tool...
Cropping intensity is a key indicator for evaluating grain production and intensive use of cropland. Timely and accurately monitoring of cropping intensity is of great significance for ensuring national food security and improving the level of nation...
Waterlogging disasters severely restrict crop production. The middle and lower Yangtze River region (MLYRR) is an important grain-producing region in China but suffers from severe waterlogging disasters. In this study, an agriculture-specific index c...
Agricultural cropping intensity plays an important role in evaluating the food security and the sustainable development of agriculture. The existing indicators measuring cropping intensity include cropping frequency and multiple cropping index. As a...
Laterite is the predominant zonal soil in China’s southernmost tropical rainforest and monsoon forest regions, where typhoons are the primary source of precipitation. These storms pose significant risks of land and soil degradation due to heavy...
Reliable and continuous information on cropping intensity is crucial for assessing cropland utilization and formulating policies regarding cropland protection and management. However, there is still a lack of high-resolution cropping intensity maps f...
Using primary data from 479 farmer households, this study examined the associations between agricultural and socioeconomic factors and farmer household dietary diversity in Visakhapatnam and Sonipat. Cropping intensity was positively associated with...
The multiple cropping index of farmland is a significant characterization of land use intensity. Based on the NDVI data, this paper calculated the multiple cropping index of farmland in China using the S-G filtering method, and proposed an optimized...
Aiming at solving the problem of a wide variety of crop planting and addressing the concept of precision agriculture, a pneumatic universal seed-metering device suitable for corn and soybean was designed. According to the physical size of the above t...
Satellite remote sensing enables monitoring of regenerative agriculture practices, such as crop rotation, cover cropping, and conservation tillage to allow tracking and quantification at unprecedented scales. The Monitor system presented here capital...
Taking advantage of multiple new remote sensing data sources, especially from Chinese satellites, the CropWatch system has expanded the scope of its international analyses through the development of new indicators and an upgraded operational methodol...
Crop diversification is considered as a means to promote agricultural development while lowering its environmental implications. Diversified food production must substantially increase to fulfil the needs of food security and sustainability for the w...
Over the last decades, growing crop production across China has had far-reaching consequences for both the environment and human welfare. One of the emerging questions is “how to meet the growing food demand in China?” In essence, the con...
The crop drought risk assessment is an important basis for mitigating the effects of drought on crops. The study of drought using crop growth models is an integral part of agricultural drought risk research. The current Decision Support System for Ag...
Cultivated land intensive utilization (CLIU) exhibits spatial heterogeneity that is influenced by both natural and anthropogenic factors, with land dissected into different scale systems; however, CLIU has not yet been systematically explored. This s...
Dongting Lake Plain is a historic foundation for China’s commodity grain production. We used Landsat images to interpret the rice planting pattern from 1990 to 2020 based on the vegetation index curve and crop time window differences. The resea...
Large-scale crop mapping is essential for agricultural management. Phenological variation often exists in the same crop due to different climatic regions or practice management, resulting in current classification models requiring sufficient training...
Agricultural drought is a major problem facing China’s agricultural production. In this study, the cash crop ‘peanut’ was used as an example to explore vulnerability. Through the atmosphere–plant–soil continuum system, a...
Paddy rice cropping patterns (PRCPs) play important roles in both agroecosystem modeling and food security. Although paddy rice maps have been generated over several regions using satellite observations, few studies have focused on mapping diverse sm...
The scientific evaluation of cropland resource utilization efficiency is crucial for ensuring food security and promoting sustainable agricultural development. At present, the research on the utilization of cropland resources primarily focuses on the...
In order to fully explore the fertilizer use intensity and its potential threats to the ecological environment, this paper has studied the decomposition of fertilizer use intensity and its environmental risk in China’s grain production. Based on the...
Soil quality (SQ) assessments are fundamental to design more sustainable land uses and management practices. However, SQ is a complex concept and there is not a universal approach to evaluate SQ across different conditions of climate, soil, and cropp...
The spatial and temporal variability of precipitation time series were investigated for the Hexi Corridor, in Northwest China, by analyzing the entropy information. The examinations were performed on monthly, seasonal, and annual timescales based on...
In the early stages of the establishment of plantation crops such as cacao, perennial legume cover crops provide vegetative cover to reduce soil and nutrient loss by erosion. Light intensity at cover crop canopy levels greatly influences their adapta...
It is necessary to develop a sustainable food production system to ensure future food security around the globe. Cropping intensity and sowing month are two essential parameters for analyzing the food–water–climate tradeoff as food sustai...
Groundwater has rapidly evolved as a primary source for irrigation in Indian agriculture. Over-exploitation of the groundwater substantially depletes the natural water table and has negative impacts on the water resource availability. The overarching...
Optimizing nutrient management in organic polytunnel production remains challenging due to the limited availability of field-based knowledge on the mineralization dynamics of organic fertilizers. At the same time, microalgae-based products such as Ch...
Long-term winter wheat monoculture leads to the deterioration of plant physiological performance and reduced productivity; however, the effectiveness of measures aimed at mitigating these adverse effects has not yet been comprehensively evaluated. Th...
Cropping intensity is an important indicator of the intensity of cropland use and plays a very important role in food security. In this study, we reconstructed a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time-series from 1982 to 2012 using the Sa...
There is valuable information that can be obtained beyond using a fixed crop calendar with coarse spatial resolution. Knowing the dynamics of the timing and location in which a particular crop is planted and harvested, with an annual temporal resolut...
Multiple cropping provides China with a very important system of intensive cultivation, and can effectively enhance the efficiency of farmland use while improving regional food production and security. A multiple cropping index (MCI), which represent...
Hebei Province is a typical water-scarce agricultural region in North China. Quantifying the water demands of major crops and their variations in this region is crucial for the sustainable use of agricultural water resources. Based on meteorological...
Exploring how urban landscape patterns and diversity affect crop yields is critical for landscape optimization to increase food production under rapid urbanization. In this study, we used Landsat remote sensing data combined with field-measured crop...
As the Earth’s population continues to grow and demand for food increases, the need for improved and timely information related to the properties and dynamics of global agricultural systems is becoming increasingly important. Global land cover maps...
Canopy cover (or vegetation cover) maps serve in irrigation management mainly to determine the primary evapotranspiration (ET) coefficient, as radiation interception and evaporative surface area are directly related to canopy cover. Crop size and dev...
In Global Climate Risk Index 2019, Bangladesh has been ranked seventh among the countries most affected by extreme weather events. The salinity intrusion has increased by 27% from 1973 to 2009 in coastal areas of Bangladesh due to impacts of climate...
Accurate feature identification of drought disaster events is required for proper risk management in agriculture. This study improved the crop water deficit index (CWDI) by including the daily meteorological, crop development stage, soil moisture con...
Multiyear production of Italian ryegrass seed crop is of interest. The impact of management systems on the second-production year of biannual crop was evaluated at various nitrogen fertilization (0, 60, 120, and 180 kg ha−1). Management systems...
This study aimed to evaluate the sustainability of integrated dairy–crop production systems by employing emergy and economic theory perspectives, and to identify strategies to improve the intensification of dairy production systems. A case stud...
Photosynthesis performance can be assessed quantitatively with light response curves. These curves record the Electron Transport Rate (ETR) as a function of light intensity. Then, statistical fit on these curves parameterize light use efficiency, max...
Monitoring agricultural drought is crucial for mitigating yield losses in winter wheat, especially in the Huang-Huai-Hai (HHH) region of China. Current drought indices often fall short in accurately representing the water supply–demand dynamics...
Exploring the evolution of the production patterns of major crops and their driving factors can provide new ideas to ensure the security of supply of important agricultural products. This study selected four major crop types in Jilin Province—g...
Advances in Earth observation technology using multispectral imagery from satellite Earth observation systems and sensors mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are enabling more accurate crop monitoring. These images, once processed, facilitate...
The growing threat posed by climate change and extreme weather events necessitates the adoption of advanced solutions for crop protection, such as agrotextile nets. The use of anti-rain (AR) and anti-insect (AI) nets is essential to safeguard product...
Crop residues serve many important functions in agricultural conservation including preserving soil moisture, building soil organic carbon, and preventing erosion. Percent crop residue cover on a field surface reflects the outcome of tillage intensit...
Partial substitution of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with manure (organic substitution) is highly recommended to minimize environmental risks without compromising crop productivity in intensive agricultural systems. However, our understanding of the...
Exploring the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of land use/cover change (LUCC) and landscape ecological risk (LER), and understanding their coupling mechanisms are crucial for sustainable development in ecologically vulnerable areas. This stu...
The intense and successive use of mechanization in modern cropping systems has increased soil compaction under no-till areas. In this study, we aimed to assess the performance of a fixed shank coupled with a seeder for the mitigation of soil compacti...
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