Evaluation of an airborne remote sensing platform consisting of two consumer-grade cameras for crop identification

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Jian ^a,b   Yang, Chenghai ^b   Song, Huaibo ^b,c   Hoffmann, Wesley Clint ^b   Zhang, Dongyan ^b,d   Zhang, Guozhong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consumer grade camera; Crop identification; Near infrared; Object based classification; Pixel based classification; RGB

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CROPS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CROP IDENTIFICATION; NEAR INFRARED; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; PIXEL BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84962570788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030257     Document Type: Article

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