An air-ground wireless sensor network for crop monitoring

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 6088-6108

  Valente, João ^a   Sanz, David ^a   Barrientos, Antonio ^a   del Cerro, Jaime ^a   Ribeiro, Ángela ^a   Rossi, Claudio ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerial robots; Frost monitoring; Precision agriculture; Vineyard; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959857659     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110606088     Document Type: Article

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