UAV flight experiments applied to the remote sensing of vegetated areas

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11051-11081

  Salamí, Esther ^a   Barrado, Cristina ^a   Pastor, Enric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Payload; Precision agriculture; RPAS; UAV; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; PHOTOMAPPING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; CATEGORIZATION STRATEGIES; PAYLOAD; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; RPAS; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURE; EXPERIMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

EID: 84912144701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61111051     Document Type: Review

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