LoRa communications as an enabler for internet of drones towards large-scale livestock monitoring in rural farms

M Behjati, AB Mohd Noh, HAH Alobaidy, MA Zulkifley… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Currently, smart farming is considered an effective solution to enhance the productivity of
farms; thereby, it has recently received broad interest from service providers to offer a wide …

Estimation of maize foliar temperature and stomatal conductance as indicators of water stress based on optical and thermal imagery acquired using an unmanned …

K Brewer, A Clulow, M Sibanda, S Gokool, J Odindi… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climatic variability and extreme weather events impact agricultural production, especially in
sub-Saharan smallholder crop** systems, which are commonly rainfed. Hence, the …

UAV-based multispectral image analytics for generating crop coefficient maps for rice

SB Khose, DR Mailapalli, S Biswal… - Arabian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Crop coefficients are important to determine crop evapotranspiration (ETc), seasonal crop
water requirement, and irrigation water depth. Similarities between the curve of crop …

[HTML][HTML] UAV-enabled approaches for irrigation scheduling and water body characterization

M Yadav, BB Vashisht, N Vullaganti, P Kumar… - Agricultural Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, precision agriculture has seen a substantial increase in the use of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They have shown great potential in spraying, nutrient …

Why do big data and machine learning entail the fractional dynamics?

H Niu, YQ Chen, BJ West - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fractional-order calculus is about the differentiation and integration of non-integer orders.
Fractional calculus (FC) is based on fractional-order thinking (FOT) and has been shown to …

Unmanned air vehicle based high resolution imagery for chlorophyll estimation using spectrally modified vegetation indices in vertical hierarchy of citrus grove

SMZA Naqvi, M Awais, FS Khan, U Afzal, N Naz… - Remote Sensing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chlorophyll is a significant indicator of plant vigor and plant health which enables to
estimate final crop yield. Current experiment was conducted to acquire high resolution …

Estimating actual crop evapotranspiration using deep stochastic configuration networks model and UAV-based crop coefficients in a pomegranate orchard

H Niu, D Wang, YQ Chen - Autonomous Air and Ground …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Evapotranspiration (ET) estimation is important agricultural research in many regions
because of the water scarcity, growing population, and climate change. ET can be analyzed …

A machine learning method to estimate reference evapotranspiration using soil moisture sensors

A Fernández-López, D Marín-Sánchez… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The proposed approach for estimating reference evapotranspiration
allows obtaining accurate approximations of this important crop parameter in an inexpensive …

Estimating crop coefficients using linear and deep stochastic configuration networks models and UAV-based normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

H Niu, D Wang, YQ Chen - 2020 International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crop coefficient (K c) methods have been commonly used for evapotranspiration estimation.
Researchers estimate K c as a function of the vegetation index because of similarities …

Reliable tree-level evapotranspiration estimation of pomegranate trees using lysimeter and UAV multispectral imagery

H Niu, T Zhao, J Wei, D Wang… - 2021 IEEE Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accurate estimation and map** of evapotranspiration (ET) are essential for crop water
management. As one of the traditional ET estimation methods, crop coefficient (Kc) has been …