Abstract

CORTEZ-NUNEZ, Jocelyn Alejandra; ZEPEDA-MONDRAGON, Francisco; GARCIA-REYNA, Miguel Eduardo  and  MENDOZA-GONZALEZ, Daniel. Proposal for monitoring maize cultivation based on remóte sensors. Ecosistemas y recur. agropecuarios [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.3, e3810.  Epub Apr 26, 2024. ISSN 2007-901X.  https://doi.org/10.19136/era.a10n3.3810.

Remote sensing-based crop monitoring, particularly through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), allows farmers to stay up to date on the health of their crop and locate which areas of their plot require attention, thus implementing preventive and corrective measures to anticipate problems at an early stage and enhance crop yield. For this reason, the methodology proposes to identify areas where there is a nutrient or water deficiency through images obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle, integrating information on the expressed agronomic practices by the farmers and the findings from the field. Vegetation indices were used to determine crop health. Participation of small farmers is encouraged to sensitize producers about the usefulness of the information that can be gathered through this type of precision agriculture methodologies. Finally, previous studies allowed establishing a guide for monitoring the maize health through remote sensors, particularly a UAV.

Keywords : Precision agriculture; remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicles; vegetation indices; healthy crop.

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