Development of a low-cost agricultural remote sensing system based on an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-190

  Xiang, Haitao ^a   Tian, Lei ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; COSTS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING; AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; HELICOPTER PLATFORM; MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; REAL-TIME FLIGHT MONITORING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 79251597643     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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