Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing in monitoring smallholder, heterogeneous crop fields in Tanzania

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 15-16, 2018, Pages 5453-5471

  Yonah, Isack B ^a   Mourice, Sixbert K ^b   Tumbo, Siza D ^c   Mbilinyi, Boniface P ^b   Dempewolf, Jan ^d  

^a TANZANIA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Tanzania)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c Centre for Agricultural Mechanization and Rural Technologies   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CHLOROPHYLL; FERTILIZERS; FIXED WINGS; FOOD SUPPLY; NETWORK SECURITY; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

AERIAL VEHICLE; CROP CONDITION; FOOD SECURITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTISES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PIGEONPEA; RED EDGE; SECURITY MONITORING; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; VEGETATION INDEX;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; AGRONOMY; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONITORING; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SMALLHOLDER; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

TANZANIA;

CAJANUS CAJAN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85044719758     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1455241     Document Type: Article

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