Sentinel-2 for Assessing Winter Cover Crop Growth and Its Influential Factors in Maize Cropping System in the Netherlands

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Sentinel-2 for Assessing Winter Cover Crop Growth and Its Influential Factors in Maize Cropping System in the Netherlands

Poster (2019)

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Xinyan Fan (University of Twente)

Anton Vrieling (University of Twente)

Andy Nelson (University of Twente)

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2019

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English

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ESA Living Planet Symposium 2019 (2019-05-13 - 2019-05-17), Milan, Italy

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Abstract

An effective establishment of a winter cover crop is important for reducing ni-trogen leaching to groundwater in the maize-based cropping system of the Netherlands. Cover crop establishment after maize cultivation is obliged by law for sandy soils and consequently imple-mented in nearly all maize ﬁ elds, but the vegetative ground cover in winter varies signiﬁ cantly between ﬁ elds. This study’s objective is to evaluate to what extent dif-ferences in winter vegetative cover can be explained by the timing of cover crop es-tablishment and weather conditions in two growing seasons (2017-18). We focussed on the Province of Overijssel.