Extended-altitude, aerial mapping of crop NDVI using an active optical sensor: A case study using a Raptor™ sensor over wheat

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-73

  Lamb, D W ^a   Schneider, D A ^a   Trotter, M G ^a   Schaefer, M T ^a   Yule, I J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Active optical sensing; Airborne sensing; Normalised difference vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICAL SENSORS; AERIAL SENSORS; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALTITUDE RANGE; AMBIENT ILLUMINATION; AVERAGE DEVIATION; EXISTING SYSTEMS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTICAL SENSING; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SENSING SYSTEMS; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; TRITICUM; WHEAT YIELD; ZERO OFFSETS;

CROPS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; VEGETATION;

SENSORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; MONOCULTURE; NDVI; PASTURE; SENSOR; WHEAT;

RAPTORES; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79957698059     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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