Jose Luis Pancorbo

• PhD
• Italian National Research Council

Cover crops (CCs) can affect the cropping systems’ N dynamics and soil water content (SWC), but optimizing their potential effects requires knowledge of their growth pattern, N accumulation, and mineralization. For this purpose, a 3-year field experiment was initiated in northeast Italy involving a maize-soybean rotation. The objectives of this stu...

Early prediction of crop production by remote sensing (RS) may help to plan the harvest and ensure food security. This study aims to improve the quantification of yield, grain protein concentration (GPC), and nitrogen (N) output in winter wheat with RS imagery. Ground-truth wheat traits were measured at flowering and harvest in a field experiment c...

Legumes offer the opportunity to reduce the nitrogen (N) fertilizer requirements of the crop rotation but the capacity of the subsequent crop to recover the N provided by the legume determines the fertilizer saving. Therefore, breeding for genotypes capable of take up N under different limiting conditions is essential for understanding crop perform...

Grain yield and quality assessment based on remote sensing throughout the growth cycle may contribute to achieve efficient and sustainable wheat production. A trial was conducted to test the suitability of a multispectral sensor onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to estimate yield, protein content, and nitrogen (N) output in winter wheat (Tri...

During 2012–2016 California experienced the longest and most severe drought in the last centuries. This water scarcity led to an increase in non-cultivated croplands during this period. The objective of this study was to quantify agricultural trends in the Central Valley (California) at peak growth from 2013 to 2016 during the drought and in 2017–2...

Adjusting nitrogen (N) fertilization and accounting for the legacy of past N fertilizer application (i.e., residual N) based on remote sensing estimation of crop nutritional status may increase resource efficiency and promote sustainable management of cropping systems. Our main goal was to evaluate the potential of hyperspectral airborne imagers an...

Remote sensing is a valuable tool for reducing the environmental impact of agricultural practices by detecting crop nitrogen (N) and water status for site-specific N fertilization and irrigation. The interaction between N and water status may produce confounding effects in the acquired spectral reflectance, making it difficult to separate crop defi...

Remote sensing satellite Earth Observing Systems (EOS) provide a variety of products for monitoring Earth surface processes at varying spatial and spectral resolutions. Combining information from high and medium spatial resolution images is valuable for monitoring ground cover and vegetation status in cropland, grassland, forests, and other natural...

Cover crop (CC) benefits and adoption in crop rotations may be limited by the short planting window after the cash crop. Interseeding or relay intercropping of CC is a technique that could overcome short planting windows constraints and allow CC establishment and growth. However, in Mediterranean regions this technique has been poorly implemented....