The influence of drone monitoring on crop health and harvest size

2017 1st International Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications, NextComp 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 5-10

  Reinecke, Marthinus ^a   Prinsloo, Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

aerial monitoring; agriculture; drone; plant heat stress; UAV

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT DETECTION; CAMERAS; CROPS; DRONES;

AERIAL MONITORING; AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT; CAMERA TECHNOLOGY; HEAT STRESS; WATER SHORTAGES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85030471954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NEXTCOMP.2017.8016168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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