Low-cost visible and near-infrared camera on an unmanned aerial vehicle for assessing the herbage biomass and leaf area index in an Italian ryegrass field

Grassland Science

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 145-150

  Fan, Xinyan ^a   Kawamura, Kensuke ^b   Xuan, Tran Dang ^a   Yuba, Norio ^a,c   Lim, Jihyun ^a,d   Yoshitoshi, Rena ^a,d   Minh, Truong Ngoc ^a   Kurokawa, Yuzo ^a   Obitsu, Taketo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR WESTERN REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forage crop; precision farming; unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; BIOMASS; FORAGE; GRASS; HERB; LEAF AREA INDEX; NEAR INFRARED; ORTHOPHOTO; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM;

EID: 85042362161     PISSN: 17446961     EISSN: 1744697X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/grs.12184     Document Type: Article

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