Combination active optical and passive thermal infrared sensor for low-level airborne crop sensing

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 523-531

  Lamb, D W ^a   Schneider, D A ^a   Stanley, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active optical sensing; Normalised difference vegetation index; Plant and soil moisture status; Simple ratio index; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 84917678609     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-014-9350-0     Document Type: Article

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