Spatio-temporal evaluation of plant height in corn via unmanned aerial systems

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Varela, Sebastian ^a   Assefa, Yared ^a   Vara Prasad, P V ^a   Peralta, Nahuel R ^b   Griffin, Terry W ^a   Sharda, Ajay ^c   Ferguson, Allison ^d   Ciampitti, Ignacio A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^c Kansas State University   (United States)

^d PrecisionHawk   (United States)

Author keywords

corn; imagery; structure from motion; unmanned aerial systems

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOMASS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CORN; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IMAGERY; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 85028558086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.036013     Document Type: Article

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