Methodology for high-throughput field phenotyping of canopy temperature using airborne thermography

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue DECEMBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Deery, David M ^a   Rebetzke, Greg J ^a   Jimenez Berni, Jose A ^a   James, Richard A ^a   Condon, Anthony G ^a   Bovill, William D ^a   Hutchinson, Paul ^a,c   Scarrow, Jamie ^a   Davy, Robert ^a   Furbank, Robert T ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Hussat Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data processing; Field experiments; Image analysis; Pixel histogram analysis; Thermal imaging; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007432911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01808     Document Type: Article

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