Instant Insights

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 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 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 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