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Agriculture and Remote Sensing (RS) have shared a long common story. Spectral properties of vegetation can be related to many phenol-/physiological parameters of crop. The recent technology advance has made available for users both low cost multispectral sensors and platforms (Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems, RPAS). In Precision Farming the current moment is crucial, since scientists have still not answered all the questions concerning performances of RS+RPAS systems, nor consistency of costs with those required by the low profit agricultural sector. We, firstly, try to lists the main tasks that are expected from RS+RPAS in agriculture (energy balance and thermal remote sensing excluded). Finally a discussion is opened about those critical aspects that, in our opinion, make the current adoption of RS+RPAS still unreliable, or not still proper, in agriculture.
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A prescription map (PM) is a georeferenced representation of a crop field showing a zonation defining the amount of a certain soil amendment, or the intensity of a management practice, that has to be locally released, or performed.
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Vigor Maps are maps where the local vegetative strength of crop is mapped according to some spectral properties imaged by multispectral sensors.
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Borgogno Mondino, E. (2018). Remote Sensing from RPAS in Agriculture: An Overview of Expectations and Unanswered Questions. In: Ferraresi, C., Quaglia, G. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61276-8_51
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