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End-to-end precision agriculture UAV-based functionalities tailored to field characteristics

Raptis Emmanuel K., Krestenitis Marios, Egglezos Konstantinos, Kypris Orfeas, Ioannidis Konstantinos, Doitsidis Eleftherios, Kapoutsis Athanasios Ch., Vrochidis Stefanos, Kompatsiaris Ioannis, Kosmatopoulos Ilias

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URIhttp://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/C21F0479-84CF-4F88-B9FC-20C4EAADE8DF-
Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-022-01761-7-
Identifierhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-022-01761-7-
Languageen-
Extent26 pagesen
TitleEnd-to-end precision agriculture UAV-based functionalities tailored to field characteristicsen
CreatorRaptis Emmanuel K.en
CreatorKrestenitis Mariosen
CreatorEgglezos Konstantinosen
CreatorKypris Orfeasen
CreatorIoannidis Konstantinosen
CreatorDoitsidis Eleftheriosen
CreatorΔοιτσιδης Ελευθεριοςel
CreatorKapoutsis Athanasios Ch.en
CreatorVrochidis Stefanosen
CreatorKompatsiaris Ioannisen
CreatorKosmatopoulos Iliasen
CreatorΚοσματοπουλος Ηλιαςel
PublisherSpringeren
DescriptionThis research has been financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH - CREATE - INNOVATE (T1EDK-00636).en
Content SummaryThis paper presents a novel, low-cost, user-friendly Precision Agriculture platform that attempts to alleviate the drawbacks of limited battery life by carefully designing missions tailored to each field’s specific, time-changing characteristics. The proposed system is capable of designing coverage missions for any type of UAV, integrating field characteristics into the resulting trajectory, such as irregular field shape and obstacles. The collected images are automatically processed to create detailed orthomosaics of the field and extract the corresponding vegetation indices. A novel mechanism is then introduced that automatically extracts possible problematic areas of the field and subsequently designs a follow-up UAV mission to acquire extra information on these regions. The toolchain is finished by using a deep learning module that was made just for finding weeds in the close-examination flight. For the development of such a deep-learning module, a new weed dataset from the UAV’s perspective, which is publicly available for download, was collected and annotated. All the above functionalities are enclosed in an open-source, end-to-end platform, named Cognitional Operations of micro Flying vehicles (CoFly). The effectiveness of the proposed system was tested and validated with extensive experimentation in agricultural fields with cotton in Larissa, Greece during two different crop sessions.en
Type of ItemPeer-Reviewed Journal Publicationen
Type of ItemΔημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτέςel
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
Date of Item2025-07-31-
Date of Publication2023-
SubjectPrecision agricultureen
SubjectUAVsen
SubjectCoverageen
SubjectRemote sensingen
SubjectSite-specific inspectionen
SubjectConvolutional neural networksen
SubjectWeed detectionen
Bibliographic CitationE. K. Raptis, M. Krestenitis, K. Egglezos, O. Kypris, K. Ioannidis, L. Doitsidis, A. Ch. Kapoutsis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris and E. B. Kosmatopoulos “End-to-end precision agriculture UAV-based functionalities tailored to field characteristics,” J. Intell. Robot. Syst., vol. 107, no. 2, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1007/s10846-022-01761-7.en

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