Arthropod pest outbreaks are unpredictable and not uniformly distributed within fields. Early
outbreak detection and treatment application are inherent to effective pest management …

Remote sensing describes the characterization of the status of objects and/or the
classification of their identity based on a combination of spectral features extracted from …

A small, fixed-wing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was used to survey a replicated small
plot field experiment designed to estimate sorghum damage caused by an invasive aphid …

Yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici), powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis) and wheat
aphid (Sitobion avenae F.) infestation are three serious conditions that have a severe impact …

In order to address the challenge of early detection of cotton verticillium wilt disease,
naturally infected cotton plants in the field, which were divided into five categories based on …

Continuous wavelet analysis (CWA) has recently been applied to leaf-level spectroscopic
data for quantifying foliar chemistry, but it is unclear how well or whether CWA can be …

Fusarium head blight in winter wheat ears produces the highly toxic mycotoxin
deoxynivalenol (DON), which is a serious problem affecting human and animal health …

Chlorophyll content can be used as an indicator to monitor crop diseases. In this article, an
experiment on winter wheat stressed by stripe rust was carried out. The canopy reflectance …

Monitoring and discriminating co-epidemic diseases and pests at regional scales are of
practical importance in guiding differential treatment. A combination of vegetation and …