@article{fdi:010086811, title = {{C}haotic attractors captured from remote sensing time series for the dynamics of cereal crops}, author = {{M}angiarotti, {S}ylvain and {L}e {J}ean, {F}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{A} chaotic attractor was obtained from remote sensing data, for the first time, in the early 2010s, its {P}oincare section revealing a weakly dissipative dynamics. {T}his attractor was captured from a time series of vegetation index, for the cycles of cereal crops in semi-arid region. {T}his attractor was fully unexpected, since it was also the first attractor of a weakly dissipative dynamics directly extracted from observational time series. {T}he generality of this result is questioned here by applying the same modelling approach - the global modelling technique - to four provinces in coastal and inland {M}orocco: {S}afi, {E}l {J}adida, {K}hourigba and {K}henifra. {S}everal experimentations are considered, applying the analyses at the provinces scale, or to several provinces in association and in aggregation. {T}he obtained models confirm the results obtained in the early 2010s: the dynamics of cereal crops is chaotic and can be approximated by a weakly dissipative three-dimensional dynamics.}, keywords = {{NDVI} ; vegetation cycle ; global modelling ; determinism ; complexity ; unpredictability}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{J}ournal of {D}ifference {E}quations and {A}pplications}, volume = {[{E}arly access]}, numero = {}, pages = {[23 p.]}, ISSN = {1023-6198}, year = {2023}, DOI = {10.1080/10236198.2022.2152336}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086811}, }