Estimation of vegetation indices for high-throughput phenotyping of wheat using aerial imaging

Plant Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Khan, Zohaib ^a   Rahimi Eichi, Vahid ^b   Haefele, Stephan ^b   Garnett, Trevor ^b   Miklavcic, Stanley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deep learning; Phenotyping; Precision agriculture; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043775154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13007-018-0287-6     Document Type: Article

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