Prospects of improving agricultural and water productivity through unmanned aerial vehicles

L Nhamo, J Magidi, A Nyamugama, AD Clulow… - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an alternative to costly and time-consuming
traditional methods to improve agricultural water management and crop productivity through …

Fusion of plant height and vegetation indices for the estimation of barley biomass

N Tilly, H Aasen, G Bareth - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Plant biomass is an important parameter for crop management and yield estimation.
However, since biomass cannot be determined non-destructively, other plant parameters …

Evaluation of 3D point cloud-based models for the prediction of grassland biomass

J Wijesingha, T Moeckel, F Hensgen… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Farmers, as well as agronomists, are intrigued by efficient quantification of grassland
biomass at field-scale. Canopy surface height (CSH) based non-destructive grassland …

Advances in the application of Small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (sUAS) for high-throughput plant phenotyping

IT Ayankojo, KR Thorp, AL Thompson - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
High-throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) involves the application of modern information
technologies to evaluate the effects of genetics, environment, and management on the …

Field-measured canopy height may not be as accurate and heritable as believed: evidence from advanced 3D sensing

J Zang, S Jin, S Zhang, Q Li, Y Mu, Z Li, S Li, X Wang… - Plant Methods, 2023 - Springer
Canopy height (CH) is an important trait for crop breeding and production. The rapid
development of 3D sensing technologies shed new light on high-throughput height …

Measurement method of maize morphological parameters based on point cloud image conversion

Y Miao, C Peng, L Wang, R Qiu, H Li… - Computers and Electronics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The plant height (PH), stem thickness long axis (STLA), and stem thickness short axis
(STSA) in maize morphological parameters can effectively reflect the growth, lodging …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating aboveground and organ biomass of plant canopies across the entire season of rice growth with terrestrial laser scanning

P Li, X Zhang, W Wang, H Zheng, X Yao, Y Tian… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Non-destructive and accurate estimation of crop biomass is crucial for the quantitative
diagnosis of growth status and timely prediction of grain yield. As an active remote sensing …

Automated segmentation of individual leafy potato stems after canopy consolidation using YOLOv8x with spatial and spectral features for UAV-based dense crop …

H Jiang, BG Murengami, L Jiang, C Chen… - … and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
High throughput phenotyping of potatoes after canopy consolidation is crucial to crop
breeding and management. A prior step is to segment their leafy potato stems, which is …

An automatic method for counting wheat tiller number in the field with terrestrial LiDAR

Y Fang, X Qiu, T Guo, Y Wang, T Cheng, Y Zhu… - Plant Methods, 2020 - Springer
Background The tiller number per unit area is one of the main agronomic components in
determining yield. A real-time assessment of this trait could contribute to monitoring the …

Simulating an autonomously operating low-cost static terrestrial LiDAR for multitemporal maize crop height measurements

S Crommelinck, B Höfle - Remote sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
In order to optimize agricultural processes, near real-time spatial information about in-field
variations, such as crop height development (ie, changes over time), is indispensable. This …