The dynamic aerial survey algorithm architecture and its potential use in airborne fertilizer applications

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1772-1779

  Falzon, Greg ^a   Lamb, David W ^a,b   Schneider, Derek ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive signal processing; agriculture; aircraft expert systems; algorithms; decision support systems; geophysical signal processing; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; AERIAL SURVEYS; AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES; ALGORITHM ARCHITECTURES; BATCH PROCESS; CROP MONITORING; FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT ZONES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; UPDATED DATA; USER REQUIREMENTS; WHEAT FIELDS;

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BATCH DATA PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FERTILIZERS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURVEYS;

ALGORITHMS;

AERIAL SURVEY; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84872064633     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2179020     Document Type: Article

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