Crop height monitoring with digital imagery from Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 141, Issue , 2017, Pages 232-237

  Chang, Anjin ^a   Jung, Jinha ^a   Maeda, Murilo M ^b   Landivar, Juan ^b  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop height; Growth curve; UAS

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CURVE FITTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ROCK MECHANICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CROP HEIGHT; DIGITAL SURFACE MODEL (DSM); GROUND CONTROL POINTS; GROWTH CURVES; REAL-TIME KINEMATIC GPS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION ALGORITHM; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

CROPS;

AERIAL SURVEY; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL IMAGE; DIGITAL MAPPING; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GPS; GROWTH CURVE; HEIGHT; IMAGERY; MONITORING; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORTHOPHOTO; REAL TIME; SORGHUM; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 85026858973     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2017.07.008     Document Type: Article

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