Mechanization in agriculture & Conserving of the resources
Vol. 66 (2020), Issue 2, pg(s) 68-70

MECHANIZATION IN AGRICULTURE

Correlation of light wavelengths on spectral cameras and vegetation indexes in barley crop scouting

  • 1 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineeing, Department of Agricultur Machinery, Serbia
  • 2 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Engineeing, Nemanjina, Serbia

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of a barley field experiment that was periodically scouted using a drone spectral camera. The camera has 4 bands so barley was scouted using 4 wavelengths of light – Green, Red, Red Edge and Nir Infra Red (NIR). Based on these wavelengths it is possible to calculate different vegetation indexes known in science and practice. In this paper, 15 such indices were used. The research work concerned the observation of correlation between individual wavelengths and corresponding vegetation indexes. This paper seeks to emphasize the importance of particular wavelengths and spectral areas in crop scouting

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