Monitoring nitrogen status of potatoes using small unmanned aerial vehicles

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 314-333

  Hunt, E Raymond ^a   Horneck, Donald A ^b   Spinelli, Charles B ^c   Turner, Robert W ^c   Bruce, Alan E ^c   Gadler, Daniel J ^c   Brungardt, Joshua J ^d   Hamm, Philip B ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d Paradigm ISR   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll meter; Color infrared imagery; Leaf area index; Sensor calibration; Solanum tuberosum L; Spectral indices; Unmanned aircraft systems

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA INDEX; NDVI; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PIXEL; POTATO; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WORLDVIEW;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 85016419599     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-017-9518-5     Document Type: Article

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