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  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,253 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,135 Views
14 Pages

19 July 2019

The increase of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become a significant issue for China, affecting the achievement of its Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement. Expansion of the large-scale multiple cropping syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
13,523 Views
22 Pages

6 May 2021

With the continuous and rapid rise of urbanization in China, land use transition research has been carried out extensively. Multiple cropping is the content of land use recessive morphology research, and it is also a common agricultural system in Chi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,174 Views
21 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Multiple Cropping Indices in the North China Plain Using a Long Remote Sensing Data Time Series

  • Yan Zhao,
  • Linyan Bai,
  • Jianzhong Feng,
  • Xiaosong Lin,
  • Li Wang,
  • Lijun Xu,
  • Qiyun Ran and
  • Kui Wang

19 April 2016

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,989 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Typical Cropping Patterns of Paddy-Upland Multiple Cropping Rotation on Rice Yield and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • Haiying Tang,
  • Yao Huang,
  • Jiaxin Yuan,
  • Muhammad Umair Hassan,
  • Ning Liu and
  • Binjuan Yang

14 September 2023

In response to the limitations of traditional double rice cropping models, this study constructed five typical rice planting models in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, namely “Chinese milk vetch-early rice-late rice (CK/CRR), Chinese mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,897 Views
26 Pages

2 November 2020

The canopy reflectance model is the physical basis of remote sensing inversion. In canopy reflectance modeling, the geometric optical (GO) approach is the most commonly used. However, it ignores the description of a multiple-scattering contribution,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,225 Views
20 Pages

This paper developed a type-2 fuzzy interval chance constrained programming model for optimizing a crop area, which integrated chance constrained programming and type-2 fuzzy interval programming. The developed model was then applied to a case study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,663 Views
27 Pages

23 April 2024

The accurate monitoring of crop areas is essential for food security and agriculture, but accurately extracting multiple-crop distribution over large areas remains challenging. To solve the above issue, in this study, the Pixel-based One-dimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,252 Views
15 Pages

Background: With the purpose of exploring the development of new quality productive forces in Guangdong, the present study hypothesized that reducing energy and carbon inputs was beneficial for increasing Guangdong’s multi-cropping agricultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,301 Views
16 Pages

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models Combined Time-Series Satellite Data for Multiple Crop Types Classification over a Large-Scale Region

  • Xue Wang,
  • Jiahua Zhang,
  • Lan Xun,
  • Jingwen Wang,
  • Zhenjiang Wu,
  • Malak Henchiri,
  • Shichao Zhang,
  • Sha Zhang,
  • Yun Bai and
  • Xiang Yu
  • + 2 authors

12 May 2022

Accurate extraction of crop cultivated area and spatial distribution is essential for food security. Crop classification methods based on machine learning and deep learning and remotely sensed time-series data are widely utilized to detect crop plant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
124 Citations
15,654 Views
30 Pages

Continuous Cropping Alters Multiple Biotic and Abiotic Indicators of Soil Health

  • Zahida H. Pervaiz,
  • Javed Iqbal,
  • Qingming Zhang,
  • Dima Chen,
  • Hui Wei and
  • Muhammad Saleem

23 September 2020

The continuous cropping (CC) of major agricultural, horticultural, and industrial crops is an established practice worldwide, though it has significant soil health-related concerns. However, a combined review of the effects of CC on soil health indic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,416 Views
21 Pages

26 September 2019

Agricultural lands are very sensitive to climate and human activity changes, which result in variations in regional agricultural resources and decreased production of total grain output and increased difficulty in producing grain yields. Multiple cro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,014 Views
24 Pages

3 July 2025

A timely and accurate distribution of crop types and cropping patterns provides a crucial reference for the management of agriculture and food security. However, accurately mapping crop types and cropping patterns in subtropical hilly and mountainous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,841 Views
19 Pages

High Resolution Mapping of Cropping Cycles by Fusion of Landsat and MODIS Data

  • Le Li,
  • Yaolong Zhao,
  • Yingchun Fu,
  • Yaozhong Pan,
  • Le Yu and
  • Qinchuan Xin

29 November 2017

Multiple cropping, a common practice of intensive agriculture that grows crops multiple times in the agricultural land in one growing season, is an effective way to fulfill the food demand given limited cropland areas. Deriving cropping cycles from s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,134 Views
10 Pages

25 September 2024

Annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) is a problematic weed in winter crops and fallows in the southeastern cropping region (SCR) of Australia. This weed has evolved resistance to multiple herbicide groups, globally. In Australia, L. rigidum is more preva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,358 Views
29 Pages

7 August 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based aerial images have enabled a prediction of various factors that affect crop growth. However, the single UAV system leaves much to be desired; the time lag between images affects the accuracy of crop information, lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,910 Views
18 Pages

The Effect of Plant and Row Configuration on the Growth and Yield of Multiple Cropping of Soybeans in Southern Xinjiang, China

  • Xinyue Ran,
  • Jianguo Zhou,
  • Tingyong Mao,
  • Shu Wu,
  • Quanzhong Wu,
  • Guodong Chen and
  • Yunlong Zhai

9 October 2023

To study the optimal plant row configuration of the multiple cropping of soybeans that are suitable for planting in southern Xinjiang, a field experiment using soybean variety SN35 was carried out employing different plant row designs. Three row spac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,908 Views
29 Pages

30 March 2022

The crop spatial pattern (CSP) is the spatial expression of the planting structure, maturity and planting pattern of crops in a region or production unit. It reflects the situation of human agricultural production using agricultural production resour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,445 Views
26 Pages

Adaptive Crop Management under Climate Uncertainty: Changing the Game for Sustainable Water Use

  • Soe W. Myint,
  • Rimjhim Aggarwal,
  • Baojuan Zheng,
  • Elizabeth A. Wentz,
  • Jim Holway,
  • Chao Fan,
  • Nancy J. Selover,
  • Chuyuan Wang and
  • Heather A. Fischer

23 August 2021

Water supplies are projected to become increasingly scarce, driving farmers, energy producers, and urban dwellers towards an urgent and emerging need to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of water use. Given that agricultural water use is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,063 Views
16 Pages

14 May 2019

Cropland maps are useful for the management of agricultural fields and the estimation of harvest yield. Some local governments have documented field properties, including crop type and location, based on site investigations. This process, which is ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,001 Views
42 Pages

Using AI to Empower Norwegian Agriculture: Attention-Based Multiple-Instance Learning Implementation

  • Mikkel Andreas Kvande,
  • Sigurd Løite Jacobsen,
  • Morten Goodwin and
  • Rashmi Gupta

21 May 2024

Agricultural development is one of the most essential needs worldwide. In Norway, the primary foundation of grain production is based on geological and biological features. Existing research is limited to regional-scale yield predictions using artifi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,388 Views
21 Pages

A Systematic Review of Field Trials to Synthesize Existing Knowledge and Agronomic Practices on Protein Crops in Europe

  • Mohamed Houssemeddine Sellami,
  • Cataldo Pulvento,
  • Massimo Aria,
  • Anna Maria Stellacci and
  • Antonella Lavini

Protein crops can represent a sustainable answer to growing demand for high quality, protein-rich food in Europe. To better understand the state of scientific studies on protein crops, a systematic review of field trials results to collect existing k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2026

The assessment of climate variability impacts on crop production and price varies by what factors studies consider, including annuals and perennials. Unlike annual crops, climate impacts on perennial crops like coconuts require a multiple-year assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,202 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2023

The accurate extraction of cropland distribution is an important issue for precision agriculture and food security worldwide. The complex characteristics in southern China pose great challenges to the extraction. In this study, for the objective of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,426 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,026 Views
12 Pages

3 December 2021

In the multiple cropping regions of southern China, straw returning has become a widely practiced agronomic measure for rice cultivation. However, excessive straw often leads to a high proportion of stubble in topsoil, which prolongs the leveling tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,443 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2022

Machine learning (ML) classifiers have been widely used in the field of crop classification. However, having inputs that include a large number of complex features increases not only the difficulty of data collection but also reduces the accuracy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,081 Views
14 Pages

Agroecological Aptitude of the Northeast of Formosa (Argentinean Subtropical Region) for Banana Production Assessed by Multiple Factor Analysis

  • Ana Paula Del Medico,
  • Maria Susana Vitelleschi,
  • Andrea Lina Lavalle,
  • Gerardo Carlos Tenaglia and
  • Guillermo Raúl Pratta

27 October 2024

Banana (Musa spp.) is an important crop in the economies of many developing countries. In the north of Argentina, a subtropical region, banana plants grow in a suboptimal environment that limits yield because only one harvest per year is achieved. Th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,085 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of the Effects of High Precipitation in Texas on Rainfed Sorghum Yields

  • Om Prakash Sharma,
  • Narayanan Kannan,
  • Scott Cook,
  • Bijay Kumar Pokhrel and
  • Cameron McKenzie

14 September 2019

Most of the recent studies on the consequences of extreme weather events on crop yields are focused on droughts and warming climate. The knowledge of the consequences of excess precipitation on the crop yield is lacking. We attempted to fill this gap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
14,874 Views
17 Pages

Responding to Crop Failure: Understanding Farmers’ Coping Strategies in Southern Malawi

  • Jeanne Y. Coulibaly,
  • Glwadys A. Gbetibouo,
  • Godfrey Kundhlande,
  • Gudeta W. Sileshi and
  • Tracy L. Beedy

3 February 2015

Malawi is a country in southern Africa facing high climate variability and many agricultural challenges. This paper examines farmers’ coping strategies for crop failure and the determinants of their choices using household level data from rural south...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,533 Views
13 Pages

Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Footprint, and Grain Yields of Rice-Based Cropping Systems in Eastern China

  • Zhongze Hu,
  • Hongjiang Liu,
  • Yuefang Zhang,
  • Ji Chen,
  • Xian Wang,
  • Daliu Yang,
  • Jing Sheng,
  • Liugen Chen and
  • Jianchu Zheng

18 February 2024

A multiple cropping system is beneficial for utilizing natural resources, while increasing the grain production and economic outputs. However, its impact on greenhouse gas emissions is unclear. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
435 Views
31 Pages

Effects of Climate Change and Crop Management on Wheat Phenology in Arid Oasis Areas

  • Jian Huang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Pengfei Wu,
  • Wenyuan Xing and
  • Xiaojun Wang

Crops grown in ecologically vulnerable oases are increasingly vulnerable to climate change, a trend that poses a severe threat to the sustainability of agricultural production in arid zones. Clarifying the relative contributions of climate change and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,196 Views
15 Pages

27 December 2024

Soil aggregate stability is an important factor that impacts ecological restoration and soil erosion. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is also an important factor affecting soil characteristics and quality. The triple-cropping system has the potential to en...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,164 Views
14 Pages

Leaf senescence is a complex biological process regulated at multiple levels, including chromatin remodeling, transcription, post-transcription, translation, and post-translational modifications. Transcription factors (TFs) are crucial regulators of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,837 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2024

Improved agricultural production systems, together with increased grain yield, are essential to feed the growing global population in the 21st century. Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) have been extensively used to assess crop production and yield...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,046 Views
22 Pages

Cover Crop Types Influence Biomass Estimation Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Mounted Multispectral Sensors

  • Sk Musfiq Us Salehin,
  • Chiranjibi Poudyal,
  • Nithya Rajan and
  • Muthukumar Bagavathiannan

20 April 2025

Accurate cover crop biomass estimation is critical for evaluating their ecological benefits. Traditional methods, like destructive sampling, are labor-intensive and time-consuming. This study investigates the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (U...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,938 Views
17 Pages

15 November 2022

On 20 July 2021, an extraordinary rainfall event occurred in Henan Province, China, resulting in heavy waterlogging, flooding, and hundreds of fatalities and causing considerable property damage. Because the damaged region was a major grain-producing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
11,746 Views
30 Pages

Biological Networks Underlying Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Temperate Crops—A Proteomic Perspective

  • Klára Kosová,
  • Pavel Vítámvás,
  • Milan Oldřich Urban,
  • Miroslav Klíma,
  • Amitava Roy and
  • Ilja Tom Prášil

1 September 2015

Abiotic stress factors, especially low temperatures, drought, and salinity, represent the major constraints limiting agricultural production in temperate climate. Under the conditions of global climate change, the risk of damaging effects of abiotic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,163 Views
16 Pages

Variation in Cropping Intensity in Northern China from 1982 to 2012 Based on GIMMS-NDVI Data

  • Mingjun Ding,
  • Qian Chen,
  • Xiangming Xiao,
  • Liangjie Xin,
  • Geli Zhang and
  • Lanhui Li

1 November 2016

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...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,300 Views
4 Pages

This study presents a novel approach to address challenges regarding data acquisition for object detection and tracking purposes by enhancing UAV path planning specifically designed for fruit detection in woody crops trained on vertical trellises, co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,486 Views
17 Pages

Simulating Soybean–Rice Rotation and Irrigation Strategies in Arkansas, USA Using APEX

  • Sam R. Carroll,
  • Kieu Ngoc Le,
  • Beatriz Moreno-García and
  • Benjamin R. K. Runkle

22 August 2020

With population growth and resource depletion, maximizing the efficiency of soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.) cropping systems is urgently needed. The goal of this study was to shed light on precise irrigation amounts and op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,041 Views
15 Pages

28 June 2023

Abnormal climatic changes and related disasters are increasing in prevalence, with many negative impacts on ecosystems and agricultural production. The area of land in China is vast, including diverse terrain and climate types, and a substantial area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,708 Views
16 Pages

Shifts in Soil Bacterial Communities under Three-Year Fertilization Management and Multiple Cropping Systems

  • Mohammad Yaghoubi Khanghahi,
  • Maddalena Curci,
  • Eugenio Cazzato,
  • Cesare Lasorella,
  • Andreina Traversa,
  • Carmine Crecchio and
  • Matteo Spagnuolo

The current study was undertaken to investigate how organic and inorganic fertilizers shape soil bacterial communities and soil nitrogen and carbon status and to find their relationships with plant production. Soils were collected from fields under a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,576 Views
12 Pages

Ratoon Rice System of Production: A Rapid Growth Pattern of Multiple Cropping in China: A Review

  • Wenge Wu,
  • Zhong Li,
  • Min Xi,
  • Debao Tu,
  • Youzun Xu,
  • Yongjin Zhou and
  • Zhixing Zhang

30 September 2023

In this review, the significance of ratoon rice was introduced, and the research status and development trends of ratoon rice were also summarized. It is pointed out that mechanically harvested ratoon rice is the developing direction of future ratoon...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,026 Views
17 Pages

The Effects of Cover Crops on Multiple Environmental Sustainability Indicators—A Review

  • Clément Rivière,
  • Audrey Béthinger and
  • Jacques-Eric Bergez

25 August 2022

Cover crops have been introduced in European agricultural systems due to their multiple agro-ecological services and environmental benefits, which do not necessarily affect profitability. Our paper follows a systematic literature review approach to h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,031 Views
22 Pages

Surviving a Double-Edged Sword: Response of Horticultural Crops to Multiple Abiotic Stressors

  • Wenjing Yan,
  • Rahat Sharif,
  • Hamza Sohail,
  • Yu Zhu,
  • Xuehao Chen and
  • Xuewen Xu

Climate change-induced weather events, such as extreme temperatures, prolonged drought spells, or flooding, pose an enormous risk to crop productivity. Studies on the implications of multiple stresses may vary from those on a single stress. Usually,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,596 Views
16 Pages

Spatial Patterns of Productivity and Human Development Potentials for Pinus pinea L.

  • Verónica Loewe-Muñoz,
  • Rodrigo Del Río,
  • Claudia Delard,
  • Ricardo González and
  • Mónica Balzarini

31 August 2024

Pinus pinea (stone pine), a Mediterranean species, is valued for its highly nutritious pine nuts and its ability to adapt to different environmental conditions. The species has been increasingly planted in Chile, where its main ecological requirement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,646 Views
18 Pages

A Web-Based Tool for Energy Balance Estimation in Multiple-Crops Production Systems

  • Patrizia Busato,
  • Alessandro Sopegno,
  • Remigio Berruto,
  • Dionysis Bochtis and
  • Angela Calvo

Biomass production systems include multiple-crops rotations, various machinery systems, diversified operational practices and several dispersed fields located in a range of distances between the various facilities (e.g., storage and processing facili...

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