A review on the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and imaging sensors for monitoring and assessing plant stresses.

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a valuable tool to collect data in a variety of contexts. Their use in agriculture is particularly suitable, as those areas are often vast, making ground scouting difficult, and sparsely populated, which means that injury and privacy risks are not as important as in urban settings. Indeed, the use of UAVs for monitoring and assessing crops, orchards, and forests has been growing steadily during the last decade, especially for the management of stresses such as water, diseases, nutrition deficiencies, and pests. This article presents a critical overview of the main advancements on the subject, focusing on the strategies that have been used to extract the information contained in the images captured during the flights. Based on the information found in more than 100 published articles and on our own research, a discussion is provided regarding the challenges that have already been overcome and the main research gaps that still remain, together with some suggestions for future research.

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Main Author: BARBEDO, J. G. A.
Other Authors: JAYME GARCIA ARNAL BARBEDO, CNPTIA.
Format: Artigo de periódico biblioteca
Language:English
eng
Published: 2019-05-03
Subjects:Imagem de sensor, Stress de planta, Drone, Crop, Orchard, Unmanned aerial systems, Agricultura de Precisão, Stress, Precision agriculture, Unmanned aerial vehicles,
Online Access:http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1108655
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