Instant Insights: Unmanned aircraft systems in agriculture

Description

This book provides a useful overview of the use of unmanned aircraft systems/unmanned aerial vehicles in an array of agricultural settings for differing purposes, such as their use in turfgrass systems to measure and monitor specific targets.

Table of contents

• Chapter 1 - The use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in precision agriculture: Chunhua Zhang, Algoma University, Canada; and John M. Kovacs and Dan Walters, Nipissing University, Canada;
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Platforms and sensors
  • 3 Flight planning and imagery acquisition
  • 4 Image processing: stitching and ortho-rectification
  • 5 UAS imagery applications
  • 6 Image analysis
  • 7 Case study
  • 8 Future trends and conclusion
  • 9 Acknowledgements
  • 10 Where to look for further information
  • 11 References

Chapter taken from: Stafford, J. (ed.), Precision agriculture for sustainability, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2019, (ISBN: 978 1 78676 204 7; www.bdspublishing.com)

• Chapter 2 - Advances in high-throughput crop phenotyping using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): Helge Aasen, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich and Remote Sensing Team, Division of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Switzerland; and Lukas Roth, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Remote sensing tools: unmanned aerial vehicles and flight protocols
  • 3 Major plant traits that can be extracted using unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing
  • 4 Conclusion and future trends
  • 5 Authors’ contributions
  • 6 Acknowledgements
  • 7 References

Chapter taken from: Walter, A. (ed.), Advances in plant phenotyping for sustainable crop production, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2022, (ISBN: 978 1 78676 856 8; www.bdspublishing.com)

• Chapter 3 - Advances in agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): Tarin Paz-Kagan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel;
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing sensors
  • 3 Platforms for precision agriculture
  • 4 Flight planning and pre-processing
  • 5 Application in precision agriculture
  • 6 Conclusion and future trends
  • 7 Where to look for further information
  • 8 References

Chapter taken from: van Henten, E. and Edan, Y. (ed.), Advances in agri-food robotics, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2024, (ISBN: 978 1 80146 277 8; www.bdspublishing.com)

• Chapter 4 - Advances in remote/aerial sensing of crop water status: Wenxuan Guo, Texas Tech University and Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USA; and Haibin Gu, Bishnu Ghimire and Oluwatola Adedeji, Texas Tech University, USA;
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Quantification of plant water status
  • 3 Electromagnetic radiation and interaction with matter
  • 4 Optical remote sensing of plant water status
  • 5 Remote sensing of plant water status using thermal infrared
  • 6 Microwave remote sensing of plant water status
  • 7 Conclusion and future trends in research
  • 8 Where to look for further information
  • 9 References

Chapter taken from: Lobsey, C. and Biswas, A. (ed.), Advances in sensor technology for sustainable crop production, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2023, (ISBN: 978 1 78676 977 0; www.bdspublishing.com)