Poppy crop height and capsule volume estimation from a single UAS flight

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Iqbal, Faheem ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a   Barry, Karen ^a   Wells, Reuben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capsule volume; Crop height; Crop surfacemodel (CSM); Poppy; Precision agriculture; UAS

Indexed keywords

CROPS;

CAPSULE VOLUME; CROP HEIGHT; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; POPPY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85022339077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9070647     Document Type: Article

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