Imaging from an unmanned aerial vehicle: agricultural surveillance and decision support

By S. Herwitz, Lee F. Johnson, S. Dunagan, R. Higgins, D. Sullivan, J. Zheng, B. Lobitz, J. Leung, B. Gallmeyer, M. Aoyagi and 2 more. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science

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Review on Application of Drone Systems in Precision Agriculture (2018, methodology): “8 FC RC transmitter [20][46] Pathfinder-plus Radio link 67.”
Unmanned aircraft systems in wildlife research: current and future applications of a transformative technology (2016, background): “Additionally, the flexible maneuverability of UAS may circumvent issues associated with cloud contamination and minimize time between site revisits (Herwitz et al. 2004).”
Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology (2013, background): “Herwitz et al. (2004) also commented on the benefits of using the maneuvering capability of UAVs to avoid contamination of image data by clouds.”
Hyperspectral Imaging in Environmental Monitoring: A Review of Recent Developments and Technological Advances in Compact Field Deployable Systems (2019, background): “Additionally, due to their typically small size and low weight they can be easily, and readily, stored and deployed [33,34].”
Acquisition of NIR-Green-Blue Digital Photographs from Unmanned Aircraft for Crop Monitoring (2010, background): “Furthermore, UAVs can be flown at lower altitudes with greater safety than manned aircraft, thereby increasing spatial resolution [8-17].”
Thermal and Narrowband Multispectral Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring From an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2009, background): “wing UAVs, most of them NASA-funded, have been tested for agricultural applications, such is the case of the solar-powered Pathfinder Plus over coffee orchards in Hawaii [44], [45], the”
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for High-Throughput Phenotyping and Agronomic Research (2016, methodology): “…from 0.4 to 1.0 μ m) and thermal cameras (commonly in the 7 to 14 μ m range) have been adapted for small UAS applications: monitoring crop vigor and coverage [27, 28], detecting weeds in crop fields [29, 30], estimating yield and biomass [31 – 33], and detecting crop water stress [27, 31, 34].”