Remote sensing with simulated unmanned aircraft imagery for precision agriculture applications

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4566-4571

  Hunt, E Raymond ^a   Daughtry, Craig S T ^a   Mirsky, Steven B ^a   Hively, W Dean ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color infrared photography; Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI); nitrogen fertilization; Secale cereale; Triangular Greenness Index (TGI); true color photography; unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); winter cover crop

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; INFRARED DEVICES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

GREEN NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; SECALE CEREALE; TRIANGULAR GREENNESS INDEX (TGI); UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; WINTER COVER CROPS;

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 84921064287     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2317876     Document Type: Article

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