A programmable aerial multispectral camera system for in-season crop biomass and nitrogen content estimation

Agriculture (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Geipel, Jakob ^a   Link, Johanna ^a   Wirwahn, Jan A ^b   Claupein, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Camera; Multispectral; Nitrogen; Precision agriculture; Protein; Remote sensing; UAS; UAV; Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.); Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990202914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture6010004     Document Type: Article

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