Published October 18, 2022 | Version v2
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C-index: a script to identify the best composite Index for seasonal crop management

  • 1. Institute for BioEconomy (IBE) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

Description

This script provides a forward-stepwise algorithm used to identify the best combination of features that maximizes the Fisher's distance between  two classes of data. Selected features  are synthetizied into a composite index (Cindex). 
In the example, the feratures are a a set of climate-related variables and the resulting composite index represent the combination of specific, selected features, that maximize the distance between exceptional high and low olive yields over Italy in the period 2006-2020.

Rationale and further details are presented in:
Di Paola, A., Di Giuseppe, E., Gutierrez, A P., Ponti, L., & Pasqui, M. (2023). Climate stressors modulate interannual olive yield at province level in Italy: A composite index approach to support crop management. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12636

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Journal article: 10.1111/jac.12636 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
MED-GOLD – Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, OLive and Durum wheat food systems 776467

References

  • Di Paola, A., Di Giuseppe, E., Gutierrez, A P., Ponti, L., & Pasqui, M. (2023). Climate stressors modulate interannual olive yield at province level in Italy: A composite index approach to support crop management. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12636