Title
Implications of sensor inconsistencies and remote sensing error in the use of small unmanned aerial systems for generation of information products for agricultural management
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Utah State University
Publisher(s)
The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Abstract
Small, unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) for remote sensing represent a relatively new and growing technology to support decisions for agricultural operations. The size and power limitations of these systems present challenges for the weight, size, and capability of the sensors that can be carried, as well as the geographical coverage that is possible. These factors, together with a lack of standards for sensor technology, its deployment, and data analysis, lead to uncertainties in data quality that can be difficult to detect or characterize. These, in turn, limit comparability between data from different sources and, more importantly, imply limits on the analyses that can be accomplished with the data that are acquired with sUAS. This paper offers a simple statistical examination of the implications toward information products of an array of sensor data uncertainty issues. The analysis relies upon high-resolution data collected in 2016 over a commercial vineyard, located near Lodi, California, for the USDA Agricultural Research Service Grape Remote sensing Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration eXperiment (GRAPEX) Program. A Monte Carlo analysis is offered of how uncertainty in sensor spectral response and/or orthorectification accuracy can affect the estimation of information products of potential interest to growers, as illustrated in the form of common vegetation indices.
Volume
10664
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ciencias agrícolas
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Agronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85051241045
ISBN
9781510618398
ISSN of the container
0277786X
ISBN of the container
978-151061839-8
Conference
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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