Qiang Cao

Qiang Cao publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Qiang Cao D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Best Publications

• Non-destructive estimation of rice plant nitrogen status with Crop Circle multispectral active canopy sensor

  Qiang Cao;Yuxin Miao;Hongye Wang;Shanyu Huang;Shanyu Huang

  278
  Citations

• Multitemporal crop surface models: accurate plant height measurement and biomass estimation with terrestrial laser scanning in paddy rice

  Nora Tilly;Dirk Hoffmeister;Qiang Cao;Shanyu Huang

  243
  Citations

• Optimal Leaf Positions for SPAD Meter Measurement in Rice

  Zhaofeng Yuan;Qiang Cao;Ke Zhang;Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim

  226
  Citations

• Improved estimation of aboveground biomass in wheat from RGB imagery and point cloud data acquired with a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle system

  Ning Lu;Jie Zhou;Zixu Han;Dong Li

  225
  Citations

• Combining Color Indices and Textures of UAV-Based Digital Imagery for Rice LAI Estimation

  Songyang Li;Fei Yuan;Syed Tahir Ata-UI-Karim;Hengbiao Zheng

  221
  Citations

• Wheat Growth Monitoring and Yield Estimation based on Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  Zhaopeng Fu;Jie Jiang;Yang Gao;Brian Krienke

  211
  Citations

• Active canopy sensing of winter wheat nitrogen status

  Qiang Cao;Yuxin Miao;Guohui Feng;Xiaowei Gao

  171
  Citations

• Spectroscopic detection of rice leaf blast infection from asymptomatic to mild stages with integrated machine learning and feature selection

  Long Tian;Bowen Xue;Ziyi Wang;Dong Li

  127
  Citations

• Indicators for diagnosing nitrogen status of rice based on chlorophyll meter readings.

  Zhaofeng Yuan;Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim;Qiang Cao;Zhenzhou Lu

  126
  Citations

• Combining texture, color, and vegetation indices from fixed-wing UAS imagery to estimate wheat growth parameters using multivariate regression methods

  Jiayi Zhang;Xiaolei Qiu;Yueting Wu;Yan Zhu

  116
  Citations

• Improving in-season estimation of rice yield potential and responsiveness to topdressing nitrogen application with Crop Circle active crop canopy sensor

  Qiang Cao;Qiang Cao;Yuxin Miao;Jianning Shen;Weifeng Yu

  108
  Citations

• Non-destructive Assessment of Plant Nitrogen Parameters Using Leaf Chlorophyll Measurements in Rice

  Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim;Qiang Cao;Yan Zhu;Liang Tang

  99
  Citations

• Predicting Rice Grain Yield Based on Dynamic Changes in Vegetation Indexes during Early to Mid-Growth Stages

  Ke Zhang;Xiaokang Ge;Pengcheng Shen;Wanyu Li

  98
  Citations

• Quantifying spatial variability of indigenous nitrogen supply for precision nitrogen management in small scale farming

  Qiang Cao;Zhenling Cui;Xinping Chen;Raj Khosla

  88
  Citations

• Advances in the estimations and applications of critical nitrogen dilution curve and nitrogen nutrition index of major cereal crops. A review

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  88
  Citations

• Potential of RapidEye and WorldView-2 Satellite Data for Improving Rice Nitrogen Status Monitoring at Different Growth Stages

  Shanyu Huang;Shanyu Huang;Yuxin Miao;Fei Yuan;Martin L. Gnyp

  80
  Citations

• Improving nitrogen use efficiency with minimal environmental risks using an active canopy sensor in a wheat-maize cropping system

  Qiang Cao;Qiang Cao;Yuxin Miao;Yuxin Miao;Guohui Feng;Xiaowei Gao

  76
  Citations

• AGTOC: A novel approach to winter wheat mapping by automatic generation of training samples and one-class classification on Google Earth Engine

  Gaoxiang Yang;Weiguo Yu;Xia Yao;Hengbiao Zheng

  72
  Citations

• Comparison of different critical nitrogen dilution curves for nitrogen diagnosis in rice

  Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim;Yan Zhu;Xiaojun Liu;Qiang Cao

  67
  Citations

• Developing a new Crop Circle active canopy sensor-based precision nitrogen management strategy for winter wheat in North China Plain

  Qiang Cao;Qiang Cao;Yuxin Miao;Fei Li;Xiaowei Gao

  65
  Citations

• Estimation of Rice Growth Parameters Based on Linear Mixed-Effect Model Using Multispectral Images from Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  Yanyu Wang;Ke Zhang;Chunlan Tang;Qiang Cao

  64
  Citations

• Potential of UAV-Based Active Sensing for Monitoring Rice Leaf Nitrogen Status.

  Songyang Li;Xingzhong Ding;Qianliang Kuang;Syed Tahir Ata-UI-Karim

  60
  Citations