The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in digital agriculture

Abstract

The task of forming a system of remote monitoring of soil conditions based on unmanned aerial vehicles was solved by this work. The authors conducted an experimental study that showed the principal possibility of such monitoring. It was shown that the most informative channel is the red one when using a high resolution digital camera. As a result of statistical processing, the experimental regression dependences allowing to estimate the amount of humus in the soil with the error not exceeding the value of 16 percent were received. Experimental plots were laid for conducting experiments for which the soil quality was determined by laboratory methods according to Tyurin. Similar experiments with the use of hyperspectral equipment were defined as further research.