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


Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, Bin Peng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, Jian Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Computer Science, Urbana, IL, United States, Yan Li, Peking University, Beijing, China, Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, Zhenong Jin, Peking University, The Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Beijing, China and Sibo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States