Combining unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based multispectral imagery and ground-based hyperspectral data for plant nitrogen concentration estimation in rice

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Zheng, Hengbiao ^a   Cheng, Tao ^a   Li, Dong ^a   Yao, Xia ^a   Tian, Yongchao ^a   Cao, Weixing ^a   Zhu, Yan ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ground hyperspectral data; Multispectral imagery; Pnc; Rice; Texture index; UAV; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050797200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00936     Document Type: Article

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