Phenological analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle based time series of barley imagery with high temporal resolution

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 134-146

  Burkart, A ^a   Hecht, V L ^a   Kraska, T ^b   Rascher, U ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Imaging; Phenotyping; Precision farming; Time series; UAV

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BARLEY; GERMINATION; IMAGING METHOD; PHENOLOGY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SEEDING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

HORDEUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85012195804     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-017-9504-y     Document Type: Article

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