High-resolution sensing for precision agriculture: From Earth-observing satellites to unmanned aerial vehicles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9998, Issue , 2016, Pages

  McCabe, Matthew F ^a   Houborg, Rasmus ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crop height; NDVI; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing; Satellite; UAV; Vegetation health

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; PRODUCTIVITY; SATELLITES; SPACE OPTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; CROP HEIGHT; EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE; INTERPRETATIVE FRAMEWORK; NDVI; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85011093385     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2241289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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