An airborne multispectral imaging system based on two consumer-grade cameras for agricultural remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5257-5278

  Yang, Chenghai ^a   Westbrook, John K ^a   Suh, Charles P C ^a   Martin, Daniel E ^a   Hoffmann, W Clint ^a   Lan, Yubin ^a   Fritz, Bradley K ^a   Goolsby, John A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne multispectral imaging system; Consumer grade camera; Crop condition assessment; Geotagged image; Image alignment; Pest detection

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLOR; COTTON; CROPS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PIXELS; REMOTE CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR SENSOR (CMOS); CROP CONDITION; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; GEOTAGGED IMAGES; IMAGE ALIGNMENT; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84927641486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6065257     Document Type: Article

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