An autonomous multi-sensor UAV system for reduced-input precision agriculture applications

24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 60-64

  Katsigiannis, Panagiotis ^a   Misopolinos, Lazaros ^a   Liakopoulos, Vasilis ^a   Alexandridis, Thomas K ^b   Zalidis, George ^b  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ^*

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUTOMATION; CROPS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; FARMS; INFRARED DEVICES; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE INDUSTRIES; AUTONOMOUS MULTI-SENSORS; COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DELIVERY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL SPECTRAL RANGE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84986224259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2016.7535938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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