Emerging UAV Applications in Agriculture

Abstract

Climate change is impacting the agriculture sector hence heavy threatening global food security. Farmers have to adapt and introduce technologies to enhance their decision making using reliable, accurate and timely information. Unlike the expensive satellites, UAVs equipped with a set of specific sensors and instruments have a huge potential supporting agriculture in evidence-based planning and spatial data collection. Thus, the overall goal of this paper is to provide a panoramic about the current status of the emerging use of UAVs in the Agriculture area and present a generic example in one of the application areas with system design and component selection. Key Word: Multispectral Camera, NDVI mapping, precision agriculture