Agricultural aviation applications in USA

Nongye Jixie Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 194-201

  Xue, Xinyu ^a   Lan, Yubin ^b  

^a AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^b ARS Southern Plains Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial application; Drift model; GPS; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; AERIAL APPLICATION; AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; AVIATION APPLICATION; DRIFT MODEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SPATIAL STATISTICS; VARIABLE RATE TECHNOLOGY;

AVIATION; DATA FUSION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; TECHNOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84878761093     PISSN: 10001298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6041/j.issn.1000-1298.2013.05.034     Document Type: Article

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