Building a crystal ball for predicting crop production: empirical vs. process-based modeling, and short-term vs. long-term prediction


Kaiyu Guan1, Dr. Bin Peng1, Jian Peng2, Yan Li3, Xiangtao Xu4, Zhenong Jin5 and Sibo Wang6, (1)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Computer Science, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Saint Paul, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States