High-throughput phenotyping of plant height: Comparing unmanned aerial vehicles and ground lidar estimates

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Madec, Simon ^a   Baret, Fred ^a   De Solan, Benoît ^b   Thomas, Samuel ^b   Dutartre, Dan ^c   Jezequel, Stéphane ^b   Hemmerlé, Matthieu ^c   Colombeau, Gallian ^a   Comar, Alexis ^c  

^a UAPV   (France)

^b ARVALIS   (France)

^c Hi Phen   (France)

Author keywords

Broad sense heritability; Dense point cloud; High throughput; LiDAR; Phenotyping; Plant height; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035765532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02002     Document Type: Article

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