The CropCAM is an agricultural and industrial technology wing aircraft which takes images of fields, crops and other parts of an agricultural operation. The winged aircraft is programmed to fly through while taking photos and land at the end of the flight autonomously. The images provided high-resolution based digital images from the GPS for precision agriculture. It has the option to arrange images in any position to show where they were taken to create a single image of the area. Primary software that was used combines pictures from the digital camera into a set of reference pictures geocentrically. Each time the camera and a GPS lock, the autopilot started recording into a data logger and collected data whether it's throughout the flight or through the pictures taken. By Geo-registration process, ground control points were determined by two methods-first was the ground control points which was best for turnaround time and to correlate different images of any area for agriculture. Next were the ground control points that was used for finding locations recorded in the GPS from the image (Connor, D. Loomis, 2011). With these images, it was useful for agricultural purposes to accurately and approximately decide whether to spray water at a particular spot or not, have a permanent record of crop damage data throughout anywhere, and assist in crop locations which are great way points. This was useful for industrial technology because the images were compared to satellite imagery. The typical spatial resolution was better than some of the satellite systems. The camera was adjusted in the lab to make sure that the entire area is acquired.
Precision agriculture, Ground Control, Spatial resolution, CropCAM, Stress
