Highlights UAVs enable high-throughput, high-resolution agricultural data collection. UAV image data present unique technical challenges and requirements. UAV technology is rapidly expanding beyond data collection in agriculture. ABSTRACT. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in agriculture is a relatively new phenomenon, with a clear role in high-throughput phenotyping and precision agriculture through rapid collection of high-resolution crop data. This special collection provides a snapshot of the state of the art, highlighting agricultural applications, advanced sensor technologies, and emerging uses of artificial intelligence in UAV-based image analysis. Keywords: Drones, Precision agriculture, Remote sensing, UAS.
J. Alex Thomasson (Thu,) studied this question.