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Australian drone technology assisting a significant step in crop tolerance to heat and drought stress
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Australian drone technology assisting a significant step in crop tolerance to heat and drought stress

K. Svatos and G. Trowbridge
Future Directions International Pty Ltd
2018
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Key Points • Early identification of plant stresses is essential to ensuring maximum crop yield. • Unmanned aerial survey drones equipped with sensors are increasingly being used by corporate farmers, agronomists, biologists, and environmental ecologists to make important production decisions. • Aerial survey tools such as NDVI, thermal and multispectral imagery are now available to farmers and have the potential to boost crop yield and reduce production costs. • Researchers have been working to discover ways to make Australian farms more capable of coping with a range of biological and non-biological stresses using unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. • In the future automated systems will become a routine part of agricultural production as a tool for promoting productivity and efficiency.

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