Drift correction of lightweight microbolometer thermal sensors on-board unmanned aerial vehicles

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Mesas Carrascosa, Francisco Javier ^a   Pérez Porras, Fernando ^a   de Larriva, Jose Emilio Meroño ^a   Frau, Carlos Mena ^b   Agüera Vega, Francisco ^c   Carvajal Ramírez, Fernando ^c   Martínez Carricondo, Patricio ^c   García Ferrer, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Precision agriculture; Thermal orthomosaic; UAV; Uncooled thermal sensor

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BOLOMETERS; CROPS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

CROP WATER STRESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATION; LIGHTWEIGHT SENSORS; OVERLAPPING IMAGES; THERMAL DRIFT EFFECTS; THERMAL ORTHOMOSAIC; THERMAL SENSORS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85045966462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10040615     Document Type: Article

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