Proximal remote sensing buggies and potential applications for field-based phenotyping

Agronomy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 349-379

  Deery, David ^a   Jimenez Berni, Jose ^a   Jones, Hamlyn ^b,c   Sirault, Xavier ^a   Furbank, Robert ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Data processing; Field experiments; Hyperspectral; Image analysis; LiDAR; RGB camera; Thermal imaging; Time of flight; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908509157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy4030349     Document Type: Review

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