Assessing UAV-collected image overlap influence on computation time and digital surface model accuracy in olive orchards

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 115-133

  Torres Sánchez, Jorge ^a   López Granados, Francisca ^a   Borra Serrano, Irene ^b   Manuel Peña, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D crop monitoring; Efficiency; Olive tree; Structure from motion; Time saving; UAS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL MAPPING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERATION TIME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 85012253409     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-017-9502-0     Document Type: Article

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