Robust long-term registration of UAV images of crop fields for precision agriculture

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 3097-3104

  Chebrolu, Nived ^a   Labe, Thomas ^a   Stachniss, Cyrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Robotics in agriculture and forestry; SLAM

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; CROP MONITORING; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; GROWTH PARAMETERS; MATCHING SYSTEM; REGISTRATION METHODS; SLAM; VISUAL APPEARANCE;

CROPS;

EID: 85063304907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23773766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2849603     Document Type: Article

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