Radiometric calibration of 'commercial offthe shelf' cameras for UAV-based high-resolution temporal crop phenotyping of reflectance and NDVI

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2019, Pages

  Holman, Fenner H ^a   Riche, Andrew B ^b   Castle, March ^b   Wooster, Martin J ^a,c   Hawkesford, Malcolm J ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canopy reflectance; Digital cameras; NDVI; Radiometric calibration; Reflectance; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; CROPS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETRY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CANOPY DEVELOPMENT; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; NDVI; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 85071560215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11141657     Document Type: Article

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