Estimating biomass of barley using crop surface models (CSMs) derived from UAV-based RGB imaging

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 10395-10412

  Bendig, Juliane ^a   Bolten, Andreas ^a   Bennertz, Simon ^a   Broscheit, Janis ^a   Eichfuss, Silas ^a   Bareth, Georg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D; Biomass estimation; Crop surface model; Optical; Plant height; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing; RGB; Summer barley; UAV

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

3D; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; OPTICAL; PLANT HEIGHT; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RGB; SUMMER BARLEY; SURFACE MODELING;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84912124929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61110395     Document Type: Article

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