Predicting Corn Water Use with Advanced AI Using Weather and Crop Data
Jim Crocker
4th March, 2024
Image Source: Natural Science News, 2024
Key Findings
- In Northern China, a new model predicts maize water loss to the air with improved accuracy
- The model combines weather, soil, and crop data, optimized by AI algorithms
- The best AI-enhanced model was 2.7-4.8% more accurate than previous methods
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References
Main Study
1) Estimating maize evapotranspiration based on hybrid back-propagation neural network models and meteorological, soil, and crop data.
Published 10th January, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-023-02608-y
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