High throughput field phenotyping of wheat plant height and growth rate in field plot trials using UAV based remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Holman, Fenner H ^a   Riche, Andrew B ^b   Michalski, Adam ^b   Castle, March ^b   Wooster, Martin J ^a,c   Hawkesford, Malcolm J ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop height; Phenotyping; Photogrammetry; Structure from Motion; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGRICULTURE; CRASHWORTHINESS; FERTILIZERS; GROWTH RATE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; THROUGHPUT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CROP HEIGHT; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING; PHENOTYPING; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

CROPS;

EID: 85019682833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8121031     Document Type: Article

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