Estimating plant distance in maize using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Zhang, Jinshui ^a,b   Basso, Bruno ^b,c   Price, Richard F ^b   Putman, Gregory ^b   Shuai, Guanyuan ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HARVEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; CROP; DEVICES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85045879479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195223     Document Type: Article

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