Use of aerial thermal imaging to estimate water status of palm trees

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-140

  Cohen, Y ^a,a   Alchanatis, V ^a   Prigojin, A ^a,b   Levi, A ^a   Soroker, V ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Date palm; Image processing; Irrigation management; Phoenix dactylifera; Thermography; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CANOPY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN TREE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRRIGATION; MAPPING METHOD; PIXEL; SEGMENTATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIDEOGRAPHY; WATER STORAGE; WATERSHED;

DEAD SEA;

ARECACEAE; PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 84856235422     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-011-9232-7     Document Type: Article

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