Canopeo: A powerful new tool for measuring fractional green canopy cover

A Patrignani, TE Ochsner - Agronomy journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fractional green canopy cover (FGCC) is a key diagnostic variable that can be used to
estimate canopy development, light interception, and evapotranspiration partitioning …

Unmanned aerial vehicles for high-throughput phenoty** and agronomic research

Y Shi, JA Thomasson, SC Murray, NA Pugh… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Advances in automation and data science have led agriculturists to seek real-time, high-
quality, high-volume crop data to accelerate crop improvement through breeding and to …

Clustering field-based maize phenoty** of plant-height growth and canopy spectral dynamics using a UAV remote-sensing approach

L Han, G Yang, H Yang, B Xu, Z Li, X Yang - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Phenoty** under field environmental conditions is often considered as a bottleneck in
crop breeding. Unmanned aerial vehicle high throughput phenotypic platform (UAV-HTPP) …

Airborne hyperspectral images and ground-level optical sensors as assessment tools for maize nitrogen fertilization

M Quemada, JL Gabriel, P Zarco-Tejada - Remote sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Estimating crop nitrogen (N) status with sensors can be useful to adjust fertilizer levels to
crop requirements, reducing farmers' costs and N losses to the environment. In this study, we …

Comparison of ground cover estimates from experiment plots in cotton, sorghum and sugarcane based on images and ortho-mosaics captured by UAV

T Duan, B Zheng, W Guo, S Ninomiya… - Functional Plant …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Ground cover is an important physiological trait affecting crop radiation capture, water-use
efficiency and grain yield. It is challenging to efficiently measure ground cover with …

Estimating yield-contributing physiological parameters of cotton using UAV-based imagery

A Pokhrel, S Virk, JL Snider, G Vellidis… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Lint yield in cotton is governed by light intercepted by the canopy (IPAR), radiation use
efficiency (RUE), and harvest index (HI). However, the conventional methods of measuring …

Soil moisture controls on phenology and productivity in a semi-arid critical zone

J Cleverly, D Eamus, NR Coupe, C Chen… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Earth's Critical Zone, where physical, chemical and biological systems interact,
extends from the top of the canopy to the underlying bedrock. In this study, we investigated …

High-throughput phenoty** in cotton: a review

ILB Pabuayon, Y Sun, W Guo, GL Ritchie - Journal of Cotton Research, 2019 - Springer
Recent technological advances in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) phenoty** have offered
tools to improve the efficiency of data collection and analysis. High-throughput phenoty** …

Pixel size of aerial imagery constrains the applications of unmanned aerial vehicle in crop breeding

P Hu, W Guo, SC Chapman, Y Guo, B Zheng - ISPRS Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Image analysis using proximal sensors can help accelerate the selection process in plant
breeding and improve the breeding efficiency. However, the accuracies of extracted …

A flexible, low‐cost cart for proximal sensing

JW White, MM Conley - Crop Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing interest in deploying multiple types of sensing instruments for agricultural plot‐
level observations has created a need for simple, high‐clearance vehicles that can be easily …