Early-season stand count determination in Corn via integration of imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and supervised learning techniques

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Varela, Sebastian ^a   Dhodda, Pruthvidhar Reddy ^b   Hsu, William H ^b   Prasad, P V Vara ^a   Assefa, Yared ^a   Peralta, Nahuel R ^c   Griffin, Terry ^a   Sharda, Ajay ^b   Ferguson, Allison ^e   Ciampitti, Ignacio A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^c

^d Argentina

^e PrecisionHawk   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Farm management; Precision agriculture; Supervised learning; Unmanned aerial system

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION TREES; OBJECT DETECTION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CORN; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; FARM MANAGEMENT; GROUND SAMPLING DISTANCES; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 85042521589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10020343     Document Type: Article

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