Integration of remote‐weed mapping and an autonomous spraying unmanned aerial vehicle for site‐specific weed management

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used in agriculture to collect imagery for crop and pest monitoring, and for decision-making purposes. Spraying-capable UAVs are now commercially available worldwide for agricultural applications. Combining UAV weed mapping and UAV sprayers into an UAV integrated system (UAV-IS) can offer a new alternative to implement site-specific pest management.The UAV-IS was 0.3- to 3-fold more efficient at...