Cotton growth modeling and assessment using unmanned aircraft system visual-band imagery

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Chu, Tianxing ^a   Chen, Ruizhi ^b   Landivar, Juan A ^c   Maeda, Murilo M ^c   Yang, Chenghai ^d   Starek, Michael J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton yield; Orthomosaics; Plant growth; Point cloud; Regression; Unmanned aircraft system

Indexed keywords

COTTON;

COTTON YIELD; ORTHOMOSAICS; PLANT GROWTH; POINT CLOUD; REGRESSION; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84983739167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.10.036018     Document Type: Article

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