Assessment of drip irrigation sub-units using airborne thermal imagery acquired with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Precision Agriculture 2013 - Papers Presented at the 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 705-711

  Jimenez Bello M A ^a   Royuela, A ^b   Manzano, J ^b   Zarco Tejada, P J ^c   Intrigliolo, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citrus; Drip irrigation; Irrigation; Performance assessment sub unit; Thermal imagery

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS; DRIP IRRIGATION; IRRIGATION DELIVERY SYSTEMS; IRRIGATION DISTRICTS; IRRIGATION PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; THERMAL IMAGERY;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

IRRIGATION;

EID: 84893393124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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