On crop height estimation with UAVs

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4805-4812

  Anthony, David ^a   Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Lorenz, Aaron ^a   Detweiler, Carrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTENNAS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CURRENT MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY; DATA COLLECTION; DENSE CANOPY; LASER SCANNER; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SENSOR READINGS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CROPS;

EID: 84911468873     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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