Unmanned aircraft system-derived crop height and normalized difference vegetation index metrics for sorghum yield and aphid stress assessment

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Stanton, Carly ^a   Starek, Michael J ^a   Elliott, Norman ^b   Brewer, Michael ^c   Maeda, Murilo M ^c   Chu, Tianxing ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b USDA ARS   (United States)

^c Texas AgriLife Extension   (United States)

Author keywords

crop scouting; insect damage; multispectral imaging; structure from motion; unmanned aircraft systems

Indexed keywords

CROPS; FIXED WINGS; INFRARED DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VEGETATION; YIELD STRESS;

INSECT DAMAGE; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED CAMERAS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUDS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85021768842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.026035     Document Type: Review

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