Mapping and monitoring of biomass and grazing in pasture with an unmanned aerial system

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Michez, Adrien ^a   Lejeune, Philippe ^a   Bauwens, Sébastien ^a   Lalaina Herinaina, Andriamandroso Andriamasinoro ^b   Blaise, Yannick ^a   Muñoz, Eloy Castro ^a,c   Lebeau, Frédéric ^a,d   Bindelle, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Institut Superieur d'Agriculture   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Drone; Pasture biomass modeling; Pasture height; Precision grazing; Sward height; Unmanned aerial systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; BIOMASS; DRONES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL RADAR;

BIOMASS MODELS; PASTURE HEIGHT; PRECISION GRAZING; SWARD HEIGHT; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85062980752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11050473     Document Type: Article

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