Source: John Hart SOUTHEAST FRM PRESS, 8/29/16


Maria Balota and Joseph Oakes give the drone high marks for results and accuracy. Balota, associate professor of crop physiology at the Virginia Tech Tidewater Research and Extension Center in Suffolk, and Oakes, postdoctoral research associate in Balota’s program, began using the drone last year to measure NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) for nitrogen fertility rates in wheat...

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