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The article has evaluated the ability of different vegetation indices in addressing the challenges associated with monitoring small holder, ill-defined and varied management farm plots

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Why is it important?

UAV-derived spectral signatures can provide detailed information for characterizing agronomic and crop conditions under smallholder agricultural settings and aid food security monitoring efforts

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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. Moreover, the use of remote sensing products in agriculture can complement the existing system of crop monitoring and yield prediction with more effective evidence-based information at farm level while providing policy makers with advanced crop yield information ahead of harvest-time to help manage expected food deficits and surplus.

Manager Applied Meteorology Isack Baliyendeza Yonah
Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)

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This page is a summary of: Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing in monitoring smallholder, heterogeneous crop fields in Tanzania, International Journal of Remote Sensing, April 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1455241.
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