Table 5.

Sensor model ranking based on Error, Consistency, and Mean Agreement Score (ECMA) ^† MPE (0.19), Standard Deviation of MPE (0.36) and R² (0.87) for measured were calculated from paired bermudagrass plots. ^‡ MIX-Mixture of alfalfa and bermudagrass.

Forage Type	Measure/Estimation Method	Mean	Mean-Percent Error (MPE †)	Standard Deviation MPE †	R2-Measured to Estimated †	ECMA Score
DM (t ha−1)
Alfalfa	Measured DM	2.36
Alfalfa	1	2.16	0.31	0.27	0.69	0.150
Alfalfa	5	3.02	0.30	0.24	0.63	0.083
Alfalfa	3	2.36	0.40	0.35	0.68	0.019
Alfalfa	7	2.16	0.53	0.67	0.13	0.005
Alfalfa	6	3.02	0.68	0.53	0.63	0.002
Bermudagrass	Measured DM †	3.33	0.19	0.36	0.87
Bermudagrass	3	3.41	0.32	0.57	0.85	0.069
Bermudagrass	1	3.45	0.36	0.6	0.81	0.033
Bermudagrass	6	3.54	0.36	0.55	0.82	0.022
Bermudagrass	5	3.98	0.47	0.65	0.82	0.005
Bermudagrass	7	1.9	0.63	0.69	0.25	<0.000
MIX ‡	Measured DM	2.15
MIX	1	1.83	0.30	0.26	0.79	0.035
MIX	3	2.37	0.40	0.52	0.78	0.019
MIX	6	2.76	0.68	0.79	0.55	0.002
MIX	7	1.66	0.48	0.58	0.17	0.001
MIX	5	3.1	0.85	0.91	0.55	0.001
Wheat	Measured DM	2.47
Wheat	1	2.74	0.41	0.65	0.81	0.013
Wheat	3	3.18	0.63	0.94	0.80	0.002
Canopy height (cm)
Alfalfa	Measured height	30.8
Alfalfa	9	22.5	0.30	0.17	0.61	0.04
Alfalfa	8	21.0	0.33	0.18	0.59	0.03
Bermudagrass	Measured height	36.1
Bermudagrass	8	29.0	0.21	0.12	0.79	4.05
Bermudagrass	9	26.0	0.28	0.13	0.84	2.29
MIX	Measured height	28.2
MIX	9	18.5	0.35	0.19	0.57	0.88
MIX	8	7.2	0.77	0.17	0.59	0.21