Development of an unmanned aerial vehicle-based spray system for highly accurate site-specific application

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2008, ASABE 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2483-2496

  Huang, Yanbo ^a   Hoffmann, Clint ^a   Fritz, Brad ^a   Lan, Yubin ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous flight; Site specific application; Spray system; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Wireless telemetry system

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; APPLICATIONS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; HELICOPTERS; ROCK MECHANICS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; SITE-SPECIFIC APPLICATION; SPRAY SYSTEM; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE; WIRELESS TELEMETRY SYSTEM;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 63049112396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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