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UTILITY OF MULTISPECTRAL CAMERA IN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE: A REVIEW

Multilogic in Science, 2021

Precision farming is a need of an hour of the world's ticking clock. To bridge the demand and supply gap between farmers and end users, use of advanced agriculture technology has gained utmost momentum. Sensor vision-based robotics (SVR) technology is currently helpful in every field operation. Precision agriculture is useful in many ways to monitor and detect field, disease and insect detection spraying, harvesting and soil water vegetation etc. More yield and other field operations can be done in less time using these precision technologies. Currently, agriculture robotics, automated guided vehicles and drone's technology is boosting advanced agriculture technology in various ways. Without sensors we can't get any data from field and other operations. In this paper reviews on UAV have been made with multispectral imaging sensors for precision farming application. It has been observed that Multispectral camera imaging sensors with UAV (Rotary and Fixed wing) are useful to calculate various vegetation Indices with the help of various reference variables from different crops. To obtain different vegetation indices from various crops linear regression model is prominently used in the literature. Let's hope that this review will be a torchbearer to anyone who is aspirant to learn about UAV integrated sensors application in Precision Farming.

Uav Multispectral Survey to Map Soil and Crop for Precision Farming Applications

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016

New sensors mounted on UAV and optimal procedures for survey, data acquisition and analysis are continuously developed and tested for applications in precision farming. Procedures to integrate multispectral aerial data about soil and crop and ground-based proximal geophysical data are a recent research topic aimed to delineate homogeneous zones for the management of agricultural inputs (i.e., water, nutrients). Multispectral and multitemporal orthomosaics were produced over a test field (a 100 m x 200 m plot within a maize field), to map vegetation and soil indices, as well as crop heights, with suitable ground resolution. UAV flights were performed in two moments during the crop season, before sowing on bare soil, and just before flowering when maize was nearly at the maximum height. Two cameras, for color (RGB) and false color (NIR-RG) images, were used. <br><br> The images were processed in Agisoft Photoscan to produce Digital Surface Model (DSM) of bare soil and crop...

A Comparison of Several UAV-Based Multispectral Imageries in Monitoring Rice Paddy (A Case Study in Paddy Fields in Tottori Prefecture, Japan)

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been actively applied in the agricultural sector. Several UAVs equipped with multispectral cameras have become available on the consumer market. Multispectral data are informative and practical for evaluating the greenness and growth status of vegetation as well as agricultural crops. The precise monitoring of rice paddy, especially in the Asian region, is crucial for optimizing profitability, sustainability, and protection of agro-ecological services. This paper reports and discusses our findings from experiments conducted to test four different commercially available multispectral cameras (Micesense RedEdge-M, Sentera Single NDVI, Mapir Survey3, and Bizworks Yubaflex), which can be mounted on a UAV in monitoring rice paddy. The survey has conducted in the typical paddy field area located in the alluvial plain in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Six different vegetation indices (NDVI, BNDVI, GNDVI, VARI, NDRE and MCARI) captured by UA...

Monitoring of crop fields using multispectral and thermal imagery from UAV

European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2018

In the following paper, an application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for agricultural purposes will be presented. The field of interest to be monitored is situated in the Western part of the Czech Republic. It is located in the area of the Vysoké Sedliště village, close to the city of Planá. There are two main crops cultivated in the areacorn and barley. The surrounding territory is mostly covered with grass. The research team carried out numerous unmanned flights with a fixed-wing platform with two different sensorsmultispectral and thermal. Three vegetation indices were computed. Moreover, two thermal maps are presented to indicate the relation between vegetation and soil temperature.

Implementation of a Low Cost Aerial Vehicle for Crop Analysis in Emerging Countries

—Agriculture is one of the main sources of income for emerging economies like Guatemala's. Yet, only about 35% of the total arable land is used properly. Most of the farmers depend from subsistence-agriculture, nearly 80% of them live under poverty conditions and are affected by malnutrition. Information about their crop's health would be valuable to considerably increase yields, reduce the use of fertilizer and reduce losses by early detecting diseases. Satellite images and unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) are often used in conjunction with multi-spectral cameras to calculate a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which provides information about crops' health. Commercial NDVI solutions are extremely expensive for Guatemalan farmers, which restricts them from the benefits of the technology. In this paper, we describe the prototype development of a low-cost autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform for crop analysis via NDVI. To reduce costs, a modified webcam was used for NDVI calculation. Off-the-shelf components were used to facilitate replication by other parties and a quadcopter topology was chosen given the irregularities of Guatemala's geography, Test flights were performed in sugar cane fields to evaluate the platform's autonomy and the NDVI calculation. The integration between subsystems and reliability of the NDVI results are discussed.

Image analysis aplications in precision agriculture

Revista Visión electrónica, 2017

Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) are currently used for multiple applications in various fields: forestry, geology, the livestock sector and security. Among the most common applications, it is worth to stand out the image acquisition, irrigation, transport, surveillance and others. The study that one presents treats of the implementations that are realized by means of aerial images acquired with UAVs directed to the farming. Images acquired until recent years had been using satellites, however due to the high costs that are incurred and low accessibility to these technologies, UAVs, have become a tool for greater precision and scope for making decisions in agriculture. Information from databases of international magazines, groups and research centers is taken to determine the current state of implementations in Precision Agriculture (PA). This article describes tasks such as: soil preparation; limits and land areas, vegetation monitoring; classification of vegetation, growth, height, plant health; diseases management, pests and weeds, fertilization and inventory developed from analysis of aerial images acquired with UAVs

Assessment of UAV-Onboard Multispectral Sensor for Non-Destructive Site-Specific Rapeseed Crop Phenotype Variable at Different Phenological Stages and Resolutions

Remote Sensing, 2020

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with spectral sensors have become useful in the fast and non-destructive assessment of crop growth, endurance and resource dynamics. This study is intended to inspect the capabilities of UAV-onboard multispectral sensors for non-destructive phenotype variables, including leaf area index (LAI), leaf mass per area (LMA) and specific leaf area (SLA) of rapeseed oil at different growth stages. In addition, the raw image data with high ground resolution (20 cm) were resampled to 30, 50 and 100 cm to determine the influence of resolution on the estimation of phenotype variables by using vegetation indices (VIs). Quadratic polynomial regression was applied to the quantitative analysis at different resolutions and growth stages. The coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error results indicated the significant accuracy of the LAI estimation, wherein the highest R2 values were attained by RVI = 0.93 and MTVI2 = 0.89 at the elongation s...