Development of autonomous unmanned helicopter based agricultural remote sensing system

2006 ASABE Annual International Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Xiang, Haitao ^a   Tian, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous control; Helicopter; Remote sensing; Vision

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING; AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; CONTROL COMMAND; CROP FIELDS; DATA COLLECTION TOOLS; DESIRED POSITION; FLIGHT PARAMETERS; GROUND STATIONS; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MULTI-PURPOSE; MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; PAN/TILT; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; UNMANNED HELICOPTER;

CAMERAS; GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RAPID SOLIDIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 67649873198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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