High-resolution airborne UAV imagery to assess olive tree crown parameters using 3D photo reconstruction: Application in breeding trials

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4213-4232

  Díaz Varela, Ramón A ^a   de la Rosa, Raúl ^b   León, Lorenzo ^b   Zarco Tejada, Pablo J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b IFAPA CENTRO ALAMEDA DEL OBISPO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D image modelling; Consumer grade camera; Digital surface model; Geographical object based image analysis; Olive phenotyping; Tree crown architecture; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Very high resolution imagery

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; CAMERAS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

3-D IMAGE; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; GEOGRAPHICAL OBJECTS; PHENOTYPING; TREE CROWNS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BREEDING; CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84937829673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404213     Document Type: Article

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