Evaluating the potential of consumer-grade smart cameras for low-cost stereo-photogrammetric crop-surface monitoring

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 43-49

  Brocks, S ^a   Bareth, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Change Detection; Crop; Monitoring; Multitemporal; Stereoscopic; Surface

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

CHANGE DETECTION; IN-FIELD; LOW-COSTS; MODEL RANGE; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PLANT HEIGHT; SMART CAMERAS; STEREOSCOPIC; SURFACE MODELING; SURFACE MONITORING;

CROPS;

EID: 84924248041     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-43-2014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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