UAV-based remote sensing for evaluation of drought tolerance in forage grasses

Peter Lootens, Wouter H. Maes, Tom De Swaef, Jonas Aper, Koen Mertens, Kathy Steppe, Joost Baert, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

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    Global climate change is likely to create more and longer-lasting drought periods,
    which will have a negative effect on the performance of forage grasses.
    Existing varieties should be evaluated for drought tolerance and new, more
    drought tolerant varieties should be developed. Drought stress tolerance is currently assessed using visual scores, but new techniques and technologies such as imagery from airborne vehicles have the potential to make such assessments more automatic and objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate UAV-based remote sensing, using an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or
    drone) equipped with a visual and thermal camera as an alternative for scoring
    forage grasses for drought tolerance. A very good correlation (0.866) was
    found between the imagery-based indices and the visual scores assigned to
    individual plants by the breeder. This opens perspectives for using UAV-based
    remote sensing for breeding for drought tolerance in forage grasses.
    Oorspronkelijke taalEngels
    TitelBreeding in a world of scarcity: proceedings of the 2015 meeting of the section "Forage crops and amenity grasses" of Eucarpia
    EditorsIsabel Roldán-Ruiz, Joost Baert, Dirk Reheul
    UitgeverijSpringer International Publishing Switzerland
    Publicatiedatum24-jun.-2016
    Pagina's111-116
    PublicatiestatusGepubliceerd - 24-jun.-2016
    Evenement31st International Eucarpia Symposium (2015): Section Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses: Breeding in a World of Scarcity - Gent, België
    Duur: 13-sep.-201517-sep.-2015

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