COUNTING EUCALYPTUS TREES USING UAV AND DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Resumo

New technologies are being used in precision agriculture, like the use of UAV for acquiring images with high spatial and temporal resolution, which allow for a better monitoring of thecrop. In this study, we aim to identify and quantify Eucalyptus trees in aerial images obtained with a UAV. To do so, we implemented digital image processing algorithms with the OpenCV library. The proposed method successfully identified 342 trees in an area of 2025 m², showing to be satisfactory, since that it did not miss any well­defined tree and the estimative for dense groups of trees is fairly accurate.