Precision agriculture (PA) utilizes tools and technologies to identify in-field soil and crop
variability for improving farming practices and optimizing agronomic inputs. Traditionally …

Low-altitude remote sensing (RS) using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a powerful tool
in precision agriculture (PA). In that context, thermal RS has many potential uses. The …

Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and various government agencies
and private institutions have provided a great deal of fundamental information relating …

Remotely-sensed data are a source of rich information and are valuable for precision
agricultural tasks such as soil quality, plant disease analysis, crop stress assessment, and …

Soybean production both in Brazil and globally has regularly been threatened by drought
periods. The use of infrared thermography to evaluate the canopy's temperature and its …

Highlights•Precision irrigation is useful when is a high soil variability.•Thermal imaging was
validated to obtain canopy temperature.•Micro-UAV platform with a thermal camera used for …

Land surface temperature (LST) is a fundamental parameter within the system of the Earth's
surface and atmosphere, which can be used to describe the inherent physical processes of …

Research and technological advances in the field of remote sensing have greatly enhanced
our ability to detect and quantify physical and biological stresses that affect the productivity …

This book provides a comprehensive and advanced overview of the basic theory of thermal
remote sensing and its application in hydrology, agriculture, and forestry. Specifically, the …

In the last few years, large efforts have been made to develop new methods to optimize
stress detection in crop fields. Thus, plant phenotyping based on imaging techniques has …