Adoption of an unmanned helicopter for low-altitude remote sensing to estimate yield and total biomass of a rice crop

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-27

  Swain, Kishore C ^a   Thomson, Steven J ^b   Jayasuriya, Hemantha P W ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass yield; NDVI; Nutrient stress; Remote sensing; Rice yield; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS YIELD; NDVI; NUTRIENT STRESS; RICE YIELD; VEGETATION INDEX;

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; HELICOPTERS; NUTRIENTS; PORPHYRINS; REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

VEGETATION;

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; BIOMASS; CROP YIELD; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; RICE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 77949821115     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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