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(9 Questions - Approx. 15 minutes)

Instructions: Choose the best answer from the options provided.

Q1. Which of the following statements about the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is correct?

NDVI is designed especially for monitoring sparse vegetation
NDVI saturates at high biomass levels 
NDVI is designed to remove soil background effects

Q2. Which is not the purpose of data fusion for remote sensing applications in agriculture?

To generate synthetic data of high spatio-temporal resolution
To create denser annual time series for monitoring phenology
To reduce the number of satellite sensors needed for monitoring

Q3. What are the disadvantages of using deep learning (DL)-based data fusion methods? 

DL models struggle to handle abrupt land cover changes in agricultural areas
DL methods require extensive computational resources and large, labelled datasets for training
DL models must include additional temporal information (prior/posterior observations) as input

Q4. Which is not a commonly used Land Surface Phenology (LSP) metric?

Peak-of-Season (PoS) 
End-of-Season (EoS) 
Relative Amplitude 

Q5. During which maize phenology growth stage is maize typically harvested? 

Dough ripening and senescence
Tip-of-tassel emergence and early dough ripening
Flowering

Q6. Which of the following is not a statistical accuracy measure used to validate the phenometrics results? 

Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) 
Bias
Visual inspection of spatiotemporal patterns

Q7. Which methodological choice does not significantly impact the accuracy of phenometrics?

The choice of LSP retrieval method (e.g. B-spline)
The choice of validation metric (e.g. MAE)
Preprocessing of VI time series (e.g., smoothing, gap-filling)

Q8. What drives changes in crop phenology?

Seasonal cycles
Environmental changes (e.g., climate change and extreme weather events)
Crop phenology remains constant

Q9. Which is an example topic investigated via RS crop phenometrics?

Nutrient deficiencies in crops 
Crop rotation
Soil pH levels