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PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 304-318Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-009-9116-2
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Ground cover; Airborne remote sensing; Perpendicular vegetation index (PVI); Soil line
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Empirical relationships between remotely sensed vegetation indices and canopy density information, such as leaf area index or ground cover (GC), are commonly used to derive spatial information in many precision farming operations. In this study, we modified an existing methodology that does not depend on empirical relationships and extended it to derive crop GC from high resolution aerial imagery. Using this procedure, GC is calculated for every pixel in the aerial imagery by dividing the perpendicular vegetation index (PVI) of each pixel by the PVI of full canopy. The study was conducted during the summer growing seasons of 2007 and 2008, and involves airborne and ground truth data from 13 agricultural fields in the Southern High Plains of the USA. The results show that the method described in this study can be used to estimate crop GC from high-resolution aerial images with an overall accuracy within 3% of their true values.
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