Digital counts of maize plants by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Gnädinger, Friederike ^a   Schmidhalter, Urs ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drone; Farm management; High throughput; High throughput phenomics; Maize cultivation; Plant density; Planting distance; Precision phenotyping; Unmanned aerial system (UAS)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; DRONES; FARMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); THROUGHPUT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FARM MANAGEMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT; PHENOTYPING; PLANT DENSITIES; PLANTING DISTANCE; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

SEED;

EID: 85021163000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9060544     Document Type: Article

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