Can Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Systems Describe the Forage Quality Heterogeneity? Insight from a Timothy Pasture Case Study in Southern Belgium
Applied to grazing management, unmanned aerial systems (UASs) allow for the monitoring of vegetation at the level of each individual on the pasture while covering a significant area (>10 ha per flight). Few studies have investigated the use of UASs to describe the forage quality in terms of nutritive value or chemical composition, while these parameters are essential in supporting the productive functions of animals and are known to change in space (i.e., sward species and structure) and time (i.e., sward phenology). Despite interest, these parameters are scarcely assessed by practitioners... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | unmanned aerial vehicles / unmanned aerial systems / drone / precision grazing / pasture biomass modeling / sward height / pasture height / forage quality / nutritive value |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26982446 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101650 |