Author(s)

Jen-Chia Hsiao

Affiliation(s)

National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Makong, Taiwan, China.

Corresponding Author

Jen-Chia Hsiao

ABSTRACT

Timely and accurate acquisition of field crop growth status and environmental information is the premise and foundation for precise crop management. UAV low-altitude remote sensing technology has incomparable advantages in obtaining crop images of different scales, and has become an important means and method for agricultural information monitoring. This article mainly focuses on the composition of UAV low-altitude remote sensing systems, crop growth monitoring, and yield prediction. The research and application of nutrition diagnosis, pest and disease monitoring, crop lodging, growth stress diagnosis, etc. were summarized and analyzed. The problems of UAV low-altitude remote sensing in agricultural information monitoring were analyzed. Finally, the application prospects and development were proposed. Trend. Future research should focus on the continuous expansion of the breadth and depth of remote sensing monitoring of agricultural conditions, the continuous development of intelligence, and the exploration of low-cost, micro-miniature sensing equipment, and use the integration and complementarity of multi-source data to form a highly versatile system, easy-to-operate solution, further expanding the application scope of UAV low-altitude remote sensing in the acquisition and analysis of crop phenotypic information in precision agriculture.

KEYWORDS

UAV; Low-altitude remote sensing; Agricultural conditions monitoring; Information precision

CITE THIS PAPER

Jen-Chia Hsiao. UAV low-altitude agricultural information remote sensing monitoring. Journal of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. 2024, 6(1): 1-8. DOI: 10.61784/jcsee240118.

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