Monitoring the vegetation vigor in heterogeneous citrus and olive orchards. A multiscale object-based approach to extract trees’ crowns from UAV multispectral imagery

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 175, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Modica, Giuseppe ^a   Messina, Gaetano ^a   De Luca, Giandomenico ^a   Fiozzo, Vincenzo ^a   Praticò, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geographic object based image analysis (GEOBIA); Multiresolution segmentation; Multispectral unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) imagery; Precision Agriculture (PA); Spectral Vegetation Indices (VIs); Vigor maps

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTENNAS; CAMERAS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION USE; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; ORCHARDS; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

CENTIMETER SPATIAL RESOLUTION; COMPUTER IMAGE PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIRESOLUTION SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL SURVEY; BIOMONITORING; HETEROGENEITY; ORCHARD; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION COVER; VIGOR;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

CITRUS; CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 85086436280     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105500     Document Type: Article

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