Hi there
Loving the Phantom 4 Pro!
We’re using it as a tool to monitor the condition of vegetation (natural, not crops) at a number of pe-selected (and clearly delineated) sites. These monitoring sites are relatively small, varying from about 1-3 Ha in size.
The idea is to track how this vegetation condition changes at individual sites, monitored annually at the same times in the seasonal cycle.
The VARI ‘plant health’ tool in drone deploy seems extremely useful for this, guaging reflected green light -which for our purposes proxies as plant health. We wish to measure and compare that plant health condition for a stipulated site, year after year. Just to clarify , we are also doing on ground vegetation mointoring, the UAV is simply a complementary technique.
I want to know whether anybody else is doing this, and if so, exactly what measures are you using from the plant health tool. Clearly the total area of ‘bare ground’ within the monitoring site would be one very obvious and replicable measure for plant health, but what else are people doing?
Cheers
Alan
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