Intercomparison of UAV, aircraft and satellite remote sensing platforms for precision viticulture

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2971-2990

  Matese, Alessandro ^a   Toscano, Piero ^a   Di Gennaro, Salvatore Filippo ^a,b   Genesio, Lorenzo ^a   Vaccari, Francesco Primo ^a   Primicerio, Jacopo ^a,c   Belli, Claudio ^d   Zaldei, Alessandro ^a   Bianconi, Roberto ^d   Gioli, Beniamino ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d Nuovavitervacuum Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Precision agriculture; Remote sensing; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS; OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84926331997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302971     Document Type: Article

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