Crop Surveillance using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Precision Agriculture

Abstract

Precision agriculture (PA) is a combination of latest technologies planned to increase the productivity and profitability by retaining the quality of the fertile land and surrounding environment. Crop monitoring in precision agriculture will be achieved by implementing innovative techniques; however the utilization of Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) results in low power and low cost utilization arrangements thus turning into a predominant alternative. It is likewise outstanding that harvests are additionally influenced adversely by interlopers (human or animals) and by insufficient control of the production process. Crop surveillance through drone is one of the technical approaches to capture and distinguish the crop patterns, which helps in early detection of the crop damage, leads the farmers to take care for crop yield. Drone is also termed as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). These vehicles are equipped with required electronic sensors, cameras and a flight control system to simulate the UAV, with small in size and flexible to handle and operate, These Aerial Vehicles can operate within indoor as well as at outdoor. The goal of the research is to contribute to the implementation and deployment of remote sensing technology with UAV. This paper enumerate on the applications of UAVs for crop scouting and analyzing the transmitted images using NDVI to predict the crop growth and yield.