Multi-temporal high-resolution imaging spectroscopy with hyperspectral 2D imagers – From theory to application

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 205, Issue , 2018, Pages 374-389

  Aasen, Helge ^a   Bolten, Andreas ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); Chlorophyll; Field phenotyping; Field spectroscopy; Low altitude remote sensing; Mosaicking; Precision agriculture; Specific field of view; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CHLOROPHYLL; DATA HANDLING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

AERIAL VEHICLE; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FIELD PHENOTYPING; FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; LOW ALTITUDES; LOW-ALTITUDE REMOTE SENSING; MOSAICKING; PHENOTYPING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE-SENSING; SPECIFIC FIELD OF VIEW; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA PROCESSING; DEMOCRATIZATION; FIELD OF VIEW; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETRY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

HORDEUM;

EID: 85037535528     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.043     Document Type: Article

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