Autonomous UAV with vision based on-board decision making for remote sensing and precision agriculture

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Alsalam, Bilal Hazim Younus ^a   Morton, Kye ^a   Campbell, Duncan ^a,b   Gonzalez, Felipe ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DECISION MAKING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VISUAL SERVOING; WEED CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; DETECTION TARGETS; HEALTH MONITORING; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MARKER DETECTIONS; PLANT DETECTIONS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; VISION-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM;

OBJECT DETECTION;

EID: 85021250555     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2017.7943593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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