Prospects of Improving Agricultural and Water Productivity through Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 7; p. 256
• Main Authors: Nhamo, Luxon, Magidi, James, Nyamugama, Adolph, Clulow, Alistair D., Sibanda, Mbulisi, Chimonyo, Vimbayi G. P., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2020
• Subjects: Access to information; Accuracy; Adaptation; Agricultural management; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Altitude; Anomalies; Cameras; Climate change; crop health; Crop production; Crop yield; Crops; Decision making; Developing countries; Disaster management; Disaster risk; Drones; Emergency preparedness; Evapotranspiration; Farmers; Food security; Freshwater resources; Global positioning systems; GPS; High resolution; Information dissemination; Irrigated areas; irrigation; Irrigation scheduling; LDCs; Meteorological data; Normalized difference vegetative index; Productivity; Remote sensing; resilience; Risk management; Risk reduction; Satellites; Sensors; Spatial analysis; Spatial discrimination; Spatial resolution; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Water management; water productivity; Water requirements; Water stress

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an alternative to costly and time-consuming traditional methods to improve agricultural water management and crop productivity through the acquisition, processing, and analyses of high-resolution spatial and temporal crop data at field scale. UAVs mounted with mul...