Current practices in UAS-based environmental monitoring

G Tmušić, S Manfreda, H Aasen, MR James… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the increasing role that unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are playing in data collection
for environmental studies, two key challenges relate to harmonizing and providing …

Challenges and opportunities in machine-augmented plant stress phenotyping

A Singh, S Jones, B Ganapathysubramanian… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Plant stress phenotyping is essential to select stress-resistant varieties and develop better
stress-management strategies. Standardization of visual assessments and deployment of …

Review of ground and aerial methods for vegetation cover fraction (fCover) and related quantities estimation: definitions, advances, challenges, and future …

L Li, X Mu, H Jiang, F Chianucci, R Hu, W Song… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation cover fraction (fCover) and related quantities are basic yet critical vegetation
structure variables in various disciplines and applications. Ground-and aerial-based …

Orchard management with small unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey of sensing and analysis approaches

C Zhang, J Valente, L Kooistra, L Guo, W Wang - Precision agriculture, 2021 - Springer
Advances in sensor miniaturization are increasing the global popularity of unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing applications in many domains of agriculture. Fruit …

[HTML][HTML] UAS-based plant phenotyping for research and breeding applications

W Guo, ME Carroll, A Singh, TL Swetnam… - Plant …, 2021 - spj.science.org
Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is a particularly powerful tool for plant phenotyping, due to
reasonable cost of procurement and deployment, ease and flexibility for control and …

Estimation of plant height using a high throughput phenotyping platform based on unmanned aerial vehicle and self-calibration: example for sorghum breeding

P Hu, SC Chapman, X Wang, A Potgieter… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Plant height is an essential trait to evaluate in grain sorghum, being positively associated
with potential grain yield. Standard manual measures of plant height for large breeding trials …

Optimising drone flight planning for measuring horticultural tree crop structure

YH Tu, S Phinn, K Johansen, A Robson… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent times, multi-spectral drone imagery has proved to be a useful tool for measuring
tree crop canopy structure. In this context, establishing the most appropriate flight planning …

UAV photogrammetry of forests as a vulnerable process. A sensitivity analysis for a structure from motion RGB-image pipeline

J Frey, K Kovach, S Stemmler, B Koch - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Structural analysis of forests by UAV is currently growing in popularity. Given the reduction in
platform costs, and the number of algorithms available to analyze data output, the number of …

Influence of drone altitude, image overlap, and optical sensor resolution on multi-view reconstruction of forest images

E Seifert, S Seifert, H Vogt, D Drew, J Van Aardt… - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent technical advances in drones make them increasingly relevant and important tools
for forest measurements. However, information on how to optimally set flight parameters and …

Using remote sensing to identify individual tree species in orchards: A review

A Ozdarici-Ok, AO Ok - Scientia Horticulturae, 2023 - Elsevier
Fruit trees are an essential subset of all tree species due to their high water and nutrient
content. They play a vital role in human nutrition and provide a significant economic boost …