Towards the development of a smart flying sensor: Illustration in the field of precision agriculture

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 16688-16709

  Hernandez, Andres ^a   Murcia, Harold ^a   Copot, Cosmin ^a   De Keyser, Robin ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Precision agriculture; Remote sensor; UAV

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TIME DELAY; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; PATH FOLLOWING CONTROL; POSITION ESTIMATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSORS; SCALE SYSTEM; TIME DELAY COMPENSATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84940197709     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150716688     Document Type: Article

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