Monitoring onion crop “cipolla rossa di tropea calabria igp” growth and yield response to varying nitrogen fertilizer application rates using uav imagery

Drones

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2021, Pages

  Messina, Gaetano ^a   Praticò, Salvatore ^a   Badagliacca, Giuseppe ^a   Di Fazio, Salvatore ^a   Monti, Michele ^a   Modica, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geographic object based image analysis GEOBIA); Multiresolution segmentation; Multispectral (MS) imagery; Precision agriculture (PA); Soil adjusted vegetation index (SAVI); Tropea red onion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85111439501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2504446X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/drones5030061     Document Type: Article

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