UAV-based multispectral remote sensing for precision agriculture: A comparison between different cameras

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 146, Issue , 2018, Pages 124-136

  Deng, Lei ^a,b   Mao, Zhihui ^a   Li, Xiaojuan ^a   Hu, Zhuowei ^a,b   Duan, Fuzhou ^a,b   Yan, Yanan ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Spatial Information Technology Engineering Research Center of MOE ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Multispectral camera; Remote sensing; SPAD value; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REFLECTION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPAD VALUE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; NDVI; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION INDEX;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85053135190     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.09.008     Document Type: Article

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