Poppy crop capsule volume estimation using UAS remote sensing and random forest regression

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 73, Issue , 2018, Pages 362-373

  Iqbal, Faheem ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a   Barry, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Precision agriculture; Random forest; UAS; Yield prediction

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; CROP YIELD; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

PAPAVER;

EID: 85065024687     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2018.06.008     Document Type: Article

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