Thermal and narrowband multispectral remote sensing for vegetation monitoring from an unmanned aerial vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 722-738

  Berni, Jose A J ^a   Zarco Tejada, Pablo J ^a   Suárez, Lola ^a   Fereres, Elias ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multispectral; Narrowband; Radiative transfer modeling; Remote sensing; Stress detection; Thermal; Unmanned aerial system (UAS); Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PORPHYRINS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRESSES; TURNAROUND TIME; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES; WATER CONTENT;

MULTISPECTRAL; NARROWBAND; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; STRESS DETECTION; THERMAL; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (UAS);

VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CROP; IMAGING METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION; WATER STRESS;

EID: 61349186319     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010457     Document Type: Article

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