A Comparative Study on Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems in Agriculture

Mohammad Fatin Fatihur Rahman, Shurui Fan, Yan Zhang and Lei Chen
Additional contact information
Mohammad Fatin Fatihur Rahman: School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Shurui Fan: School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Yan Zhang: School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Lei Chen: School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China

Agriculture, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-26

Abstract: Presently in agriculture, there is much ample scope for drone and UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) development. Because of their low cost and small size, these devices have the ability to help many developing countries with economic prosperity. The entire aggregation of financial investments in the agricultural area has increased appreciably in recent years. Sooth to say, agriculture remains a massive part of the world’s commercial growth, and due to some complications, the agriculture fields withstand massive losses. Pets and destructive insects seem to be the primary reasons for certain degenerative diseases. It minimizes the potential productivity of the crops. For increasing the quality of the plants, fertilizers and pesticides are appropriately applied. Using UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for spraying pesticides and fertilizing materials is an exuberant contraption. It adequately reduces the rate of health dilemma and the number of workers, which is quite an impressive landmark. Willing producers are also adopting UAVs in agriculture to soil and field analysis, seed sowing, lessen the time and costs correlated with crop scouting, and field mapping. It is rapid, and it can sensibly diminish a farmer’s workload, which is significantly a part of the agricultural revolution. This article aims to proportionally represent the concept of agricultural purposed UAV clear to the neophytes. First, this paper outlines the harmonic framework of the agricultural UAV, and then it abundantly illustrates the methods and materials. Finally, the article portrays the outcome.

Keywords: UAV; unmanned aerial vehicle; agricultural UAV; NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index); spraying system; livestock; agricultural monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/1/22/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/1/22/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jagris:v:11:y:2021:i:1:p:22-:d:473516

Access Statistics for this article

Agriculture is currently edited by Ms. Leda Xuan

More articles in Agriculture from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().