Development of an unmanned aerial vehicle-borne crop-growth monitoring system

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Ni, Jun ^a   Yao, Lili ^a   Zhang, Jingchao ^b   Cao, Weixing ^a   Zhu, Yan ^a   Tai, Xiuxiang ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanjing Research Institute for Agriculture Mechanization Ministry of Agriculture   (China)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Crop growth model; Field experiment; Flow field analysis; Monitoring system; Unmanned aerial vehicle sensor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CROPS; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION; VEHICLES;

CROP GROWTH MODEL; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOW FIELD ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

MONITORING;

NITROGEN;

ALTITUDE; CHEMISTRY; GAS;

ALTITUDE; GASES; NITROGEN;

EID: 85014595445     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17030502     Document Type: Article

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