Vicarious radiometric calibration of a multispectral sensor from an aerial trike applied to precision agriculture

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-38

  Herrero Huerta, Mónica ^a   Hernández López, David ^b   Rodriguez Gonzalvez, Pablo ^a   González Aguilera, Diego ^a   González Piqueras, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multispectral sensor; Precision agriculture; Radiometric calibration; Remote sensing; Vegetation index images; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; AGRICULTURE;

GEO-REFERENCED IMAGES; MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS; PAY LOAD CAPACITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION INDEX; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; DECISION MAKING; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VINEYARD; VOLUME; WEIGHT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SENSOR; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84904907547     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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