Perspectives for Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Precision Agriculture

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter H. Maes ◽  
Kathy Steppe
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

scholarly journals Crop Monitoring using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Cuaran ◽  
Jose Leon
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Crop Monitoring ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Monitoring Applications ◽  
Common Application

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have been developed significantly over the past two decades, for a wide variety of applications such as surveillance, geographic studies, fire monitoring, security, military applications, search and rescue, agriculture, etc. In agriculture, for example, remote sensing by means of unmanned aerial vehicles has proven to be the most efficient way to monitor crops from images. Unlike remote sensing from satellite images or taken from manned aircraft, UAVs allow capturing images of high spatial and temporal resolution, thanks to their maneuverability and capability of flying at low altitude. This article presents an extensive review of the literature on crop monitoring by UAV, identifying specific applications, types of vehicles, sensors, image processing techniques, among others. A total of 50 articles related to crop monitoring applications of UAV in agriculture were reviewed. Only journal articles indexed in the Scopus database with more than 50 citations were considered. It was found that cereals are the most common crops where remote sensing has been applied so far. In addition, the most common crop remote sensing applications are related to precision agriculture, which includes the management of weeds, pests, diseases, nutrients and others. Crop phenotyping is also a common application of remote sensing, which consists of the evaluation of a crop’s physical characteristics under environmental changes, to select the plants or seeds with favorable genotype and phenotype. Besides, multirotor is the most common type of UAV used for remote sensing and RGB and multispectral cameras are mostly used as sensors for this application. Finally, there is a great opportunity for research in remote sensing related to a wide variety of crops, crop monitoring applications, vegetation indexes and photogrammetry.

scholarly journals Comparison of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Performance Using Image Processing

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Cano ◽  
Ryan Horton ◽  
Chase Liljegren ◽  
Duke M. Bulanon
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Rectilinear Motion ◽  
Straight Path ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Management Technology ◽  
The Stability

Precision agriculture is a farm management technology that involves sensing and then responding to the observed variability in the field. Remote sensing is one of the tools of precision agriculture. The emergence of small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAV) have paved the way to accessible remote sensing tools for farmers. This paper describes the comparison of two popular off-the-shelf sUAVs: 3DR Iris and DJI Phantom 2. Both units are equipped with a camera gimbal attached with a GoPro camera. The comparison of the two sUAV involves a hovering test and a rectilinear motion test. In the hovering test, the sUAV was allowed to hover over a known object and images were taken every second for two minutes. The position of the object in the images was measured and this was used to assess the stability of the sUAV while hovering. In the rectilinear test, the sUAV was allowed to follow a straight path and images of a lined track were acquired. The lines on the images were then measured on how accurate the sUAV followed the path. Results showed that both sUAV performed well in both the hovering test and the rectilinear motion test. This demonstrates that both sUAVs can be used for agricultural monitoring.

scholarly journals Remote sensing

2020 ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Manuel Perez Ruiz ◽  
Jorge Martinez Guanter
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a common tool in Precision Agriculture. Combined with different sensors and devices, UAVs can be capturing high geo-referenced resolution images and enable the acquisition of real-time crop-related data. We will go through the main typologies and characteristics of UAVs, different sensors and utilities and other applications of UAVs in agriculture.

A Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Citizen Science, and Interferometry Remote Sensing in Landslide Hazards

2017 ◽  
pp. 469-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Partsinevelos ◽  
Zacharias Agioutantis ◽  
Achilleas Tripolitsiotis ◽  
Nathaniel Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Landslide Hazards

scholarly journals PERSPECTIVE OF USE OF REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES IN THE AGRICULTURE OF TATARSTAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Салават Сулейманов ◽  
Salavat Suleymanov ◽  
Николай Логинов ◽  
Nikolay Loginov
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Soil Characteristics ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Vast Territory

The vast territory of Russia, occupied by agricultural lands, is difficult to control due to the lack of an undeveloped network of operational monitoring points, ground stations, including meteorological stations, lack of aviation support due to the high cost of maintaining staff, etc. In addition, due to various types of natural processes, there is a constant change in the boundaries of acreage, soil characteristics and vegetation conditions in different fields and from site to site. Abroad, the above mentioned problems are successfully solved due to the application of remote sensing data (RSD) of the Earth, obtained with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The proceedings, obtained (UAV), can help both to solve complex tasks of managing agricultural territories, and in highly specialized areas.

Forest Firefighting Monitoring System Based on UAV Team and Remote Sensing

2019 ◽  
pp. 220-241
Author(s):  
Maryna Zharikova ◽  
Vladimir Sherstjuk
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Fire Response ◽  
Ground Support ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
Fire Spreading ◽  
Multi Uav

In this chapter, the authors propose an approach to using a heterogeneous team of unmanned aerial vehicles and remote sensing techniques to perform tactical forest firefighting operations. The authors present the three-level architecture of the multi-UAV-based forest firefighting monitoring system; features of patrolling, confirming, and monitoring missions; as well as functions of UAV in such missions. The authors consider an infrastructure for the UAV ground support and equipment used for the UAVs control. The method of the data integration into a fire-spreading model in a real-time DSS for the forest fire response is proposed. The proposed approach has been tested with the multi-UAV team that included three drones for the patrol missions, one helicopter for the confirmation mission, and one octocopter for the monitoring mission. The performance of such multi-UAV team has been studied in the laboratory conditions. The result of the experiment has shown that the proposed approach provides required credibility and efficiency of fire prediction and response.

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