UAVs for Vegetation Monitoring

• Other Authors: de Castro Megías, Ana (Editor), Shi, Yeyin (Editor), Peña, Jose M. (Editor), Maja, Joe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; UAS; UAV; vegetation cover; multispectral; land cover; forest; Acacia; Indonesia; tropics; vegetation ground cover; vegetation indices; agro-environmental measures; olive groves; southern Spain; sUAS; water stress; ornamental; container-grown; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; neural network; visual recognition; precision agriculture; canopy cover; image analysis; crop mapping; evapotranspiration (ET); GRAPEX; remote sensing; Two Source Energy Balance model (TSEB); contextual spatial domain/resolution; data aggregation; eddy covariance (EC); Fusarium wilt; crop disease; banana; multispectral remote sensing; purple rapeseed leaves; unmanned aerial vehicle; U-Net; plant segmentation; nitrogen stress; Glycine max; RGB; canopy height; close remote sensing; growth model; curve fitting; NDVI; solar zenith angle; flight altitude; time of day; operating parameters; CNN; Faster RCNN; SSD; Inception v2; patch-based CNN; MobileNet v2; detection performance; inference time; disease detection; cotton root rot; plant-level; single-plant; plant-by-plant; classification; UAV remote sensing; crop monitoring; RGB imagery; multispectral imagery; century-old biochar; semantic segmentation; random forest; crop canopy; multispectral image; chlorophyll content; remote sensing technique; individual plant segmentation; plant detection; transfer learning; maize tassel; tassel branch number; convolution neural network; VGG16; plant nitrogen estimation; vegetation index; image segmentation; transpiration; method comparison; oil palm; multiple linear regression; support vector machine; artificial neural network; UAV hyperspectral; wheat yellow rust; disease monitoring; texture; spatial resolution; RGB camera; thermal camera; drought tolerance; forage grass; HSV; CIELab; broad-sense heritability; phenotyping gap; high throughput field phenotyping; UAV digital images; winter wheat biomass; multiscale textures; red-edge spectra; least squares support vector machine; variable importance; drone; hyperspectral; thermal; nutrient deficiency; weed detection; disease diagnosis; plant trails
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This book compiles a set of original and innovative papers included in the Special Issue on UAVs for vegetation monitoring, which proves the wide scope of UAVs in very diverse vegetation applications, both in agricultural and forestry scenarios, ranging from the characterization of relevant vegetati...