Develop an unmanned aerial vehicle based automatic aerial spraying system

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 128, Issue , 2016, Pages 58-66

  Xue, Xinyu ^a   Lan, Yubin ^b   Sun, Zhu ^a   Chang, Chun ^a   Hoffmann, W Clint ^c  

^a AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c USDA ARS SPARC AATRU   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial spraying; GPS navigation; Spray uniformity; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AUTOMATION; WIND;

AERIAL SPRAYING; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; GPS NAVIGATION; SINGLE CHIP MICRO COMPUTERS; SPRAY UNIFORMITY; STANDARD REQUIREMENTS; VARIATION COEFFICIENT;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATION; GPS; PRECISION; SOFTWARE; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84983802411     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2016.07.022     Document Type: Article

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