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Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems To Sample Insects In Soybean, Marvin Merkl
Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems To Sample Insects In Soybean, Marvin Merkl
Theses and Dissertations
To overcome some limitations of manual insect sampling in soybeans, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sampling platform was developed that could collect insects in a sweep net attached to the bottom of a UAV. Before this UAV sampling platform can be used to make management decisions, correlations with manual sweep net and/or drop cloth sampling methods are needed. This will allow action thresholds for the various pests to be calculated for the UAV sampling platform. To make the correlations, 87 soybean fields were sampled during 2020 and 2021 with each of 4 sampling methods, a UAV travelling 50-m, the same …