UAS Phenotyping and Aerial Image Acquisition Procedures

1. Flight Checklists

1.1 Pre-Flight Guide – Before Leaving For Field

1.1.1 UAS Accessory List

1.1.2 Things to check before leaving lab

1.2 Field-setup Guideline

1.3 At-field- Pre-Flight Checklist

1.3.1 Camera settings

1.4 At-Field- In-Flight Checklist

1.5 Post-Flight Checklist

2. How-to Guide

2.1 CHDK Installation on SD Card

2.2 Camera Settings

2.3 Mission Planner Program and Driver Installation

2.4 Ground Map Caching on Mission Planner

2.5 Mission Planning

2.6 Downloading Data Flash Logs

2.7 Preparing Data For Archiving

3. Ground Truth and Agronomic Notes (Optional)

3.1 Plant Height

3.2 NDVI with a spectroradiometer or GreenSeeker

3.3 Lodging percentage