Near-Real-Time Remote Sensing Data

Remote sensing is a very promising data collection tool for precision agriculture. However, the limitation in remote sensing data quality/availability has become a major obstacle in the demonstration and adoption of the technology. In this project, we are trying to fine tune a remote sensing system for crop canopy monitoring. Our goal is to eliminate the uncontrollable effects such as timing lighting conditions of the remote sensing images in the in-field variability mapping process.

Live Camera

 

The high-resolution remote sensing camera is overlooking the Morrow Plots, the oldest agricultural research fields in the United States. Our high-resolution remote sensing images are taken automatically every hour during the day time. Sample RGB and a CIR images are captured and transferred to our web server every 10 minutes. The images displayed have been compressed for fast loading.

 

*- Special thanks to the Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics for providing lab and internet support.


For more information please contact Dr. Lei Tian in Agricultural Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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