An improved crop scouting technique incorporating unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted multispectral crop imaging into conventional scouting practice for gummy stem blight in Watermelon

Plant Disease

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 1642-1650

  Kalischuk, Melanie ^a   Paret, Mathews L ^a,b   Freeman, Joshua H ^a,b   Raj, Darren ^c   Silva, Susannah Da ^a   Eubanks, Shep ^b   Wiggins, D J ^b   Lollar, Matthew ^b   Marois, James J ^d   Charles Mellinger, H ^d   Das, Jnaneshwar ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Agribugs Inc   (United States)

^d Glades Crop Care Inc   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cucurbits; Drone assisted scouting; Precision agriculture; UAV; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CITRULLUS; CROP; DEVICES; FLORIDA; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURE; CITRULLUS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FLORIDA; GEORGIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 85068537345     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: 19437692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1373-RE     Document Type: Article

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