Table 4 Descriptive statistics of the forage mass and chemical composition parameters of Marandu palisade grass pastures.

From: Using sentinel-2 satellite images and machine learning algorithms to predict tropical pasture forage mass, crude protein, and fiber content

Variables

Count

Mean

S.D

Min

Max

Forage mass parameters

 Forage DM (g/g DM)

508

0.32

0.0897

0.12

0.62

 Dry forage mass (g/m2)

508

631

122

289

1023

 Dry leaf FM (g/m2)

508

162

57

46

305

 Dry green FM (g/m2)

508

331

104

87

547

 Leaf proportion (g/g DM)

508

0.26

0.078

0.12

0.45

 Stem proportion (g/g DM)

508

0.26

0.073

0.12

0.47

 Dead material proportion (g/g DM)

508

0.45

0.12

0.18

0.75

Chemical composition parameters

 CP (g/g DM)

399

0.129

0.0458

0.0285

0.199

 NDF (g/g DM)

399

0.628

0.0576

0.448

0.750

  1. S.D. standard deviation, Min minimum value, Max maximum value, DM dry matter, FM, forage mass, CP crude protein, NDF neutral detergent fiber, Green, Leaf + stem.
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