TY - JOUR
T1 - A promising trend for field information collection
T2 - An air-ground multi-sensor monitoring system
AU - Zhang, Yawei
AU - Chen, Du
AU - Wang, Shumao
AU - Tian, Lei
N1 - This paper is financially supported by the Thirteen Fifth National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFD0700102 ) and Chang Jiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (Grant No. IRT13039 ).
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Timely identifying and quantifying significant spatial and temporal variability in agricultural field has been a crucial factor for improving agricultural production and management. This paper focuses on the mainstream techniques and applications can be adopted to improve the field information collection method. In this paper, the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and remote sensing (RS) technology were reviewed, especially the micro unmanned aerial vehicle (mUAV)-based WSNs and mUAV-based RS by analyzing its applications in field information collection, and pointed out its existing benefits and limitations. A system encompassed multiple technique approaches was proposed in this paper which is called air-ground multi-sensor monitoring system. With the diversification methods of in-field information collection and the improvement of detection precision, an in-field information collection system will play an important role in controlling the farming operations of mechanized agriculture and optimizing the management of agricultural machinery group. In the future, the combination of mUAV, WSNs and RS for crop and soil monitoring will become a powerful tool to obtain field information, increase production, optimize the overall farming practices and input of resources and provide comprehensive reference for the study of soil-crops-machine relationships.
AB - Timely identifying and quantifying significant spatial and temporal variability in agricultural field has been a crucial factor for improving agricultural production and management. This paper focuses on the mainstream techniques and applications can be adopted to improve the field information collection method. In this paper, the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and remote sensing (RS) technology were reviewed, especially the micro unmanned aerial vehicle (mUAV)-based WSNs and mUAV-based RS by analyzing its applications in field information collection, and pointed out its existing benefits and limitations. A system encompassed multiple technique approaches was proposed in this paper which is called air-ground multi-sensor monitoring system. With the diversification methods of in-field information collection and the improvement of detection precision, an in-field information collection system will play an important role in controlling the farming operations of mechanized agriculture and optimizing the management of agricultural machinery group. In the future, the combination of mUAV, WSNs and RS for crop and soil monitoring will become a powerful tool to obtain field information, increase production, optimize the overall farming practices and input of resources and provide comprehensive reference for the study of soil-crops-machine relationships.
KW - Field information collection
KW - Multi-sensor monitoring system
KW - mUAV-based RS
KW - mUAV-based WSNs
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U2 - 10.1016/j.inpa.2018.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.inpa.2018.02.002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85043353817
SN - 2214-3173
VL - 5
SP - 224
EP - 233
JO - Information Processing in Agriculture
JF - Information Processing in Agriculture
IS - 2
ER -