Uav Based Crop Monitoring

Abstract

Today, UAV based monitoring considerably is being used in agriculture studies. The main reasons of this inevitable popularity are the advantages of UAV systems such as ease of use, speed, portability, and low operating costs. Besides, the UAV systems become more powerful with photogrammetric improvements. Photogrammetry allows us to create different topographic digital data such as digital elevation models and orthophotos. In this study, a photogrammetric UAV flight plan was prepared, and aerial images of a 22 ha. cornfield is collected in Şanlıurfa/Çamlıdere ‘’Fig. 2’’. The main purpose of the study is to determine the deficit effects of excessive water. Therefore, the collected aerial images were photogrammetrically processed, and the affected area was automatically calculated as 1.5 ha.