Survey of Drones for Agriculture Automation from Planting to Harvest

INES 2018 - IEEE 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 000353-000358

  Kulbacki, Marek ^a,b   Segen, Jakub ^a,b   Knieć, Wojciech ^a,b   Klempous, Ryszard ^c   Kluwak, Konrad ^c   Nikodem, Jan ^c   Kulbacka, Julita ^d   Serester, Andrea ^e  

^a POLISH JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b DIVE IN AI   (Poland)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e ÓBUDA UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

AGRICULTURE OPERATION; AUTOMATED TASKS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; HIGH QUALITY; PROCESS AUTOMATION; SPECTRAL IMAGING; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS; VARIABLE RATE APPLICATION;

DRONES;

EID: 85058010975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INES.2018.8523943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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