Challenges
- Plants merge into a continuous canopy once rows begin to close.
- Weeds between rows resemble young plants at orthomosaic resolution.
- Soil clods and residue cast shadows that read as foliage.
- Orthomosaic stitching seams distort plant shape at tile boundaries.
- Exposure varies across a mosaic assembled from flights at different times.
- Counting fatigue over very long rows makes consistency the main risk.
Related work
Aerial Orthomosaic Segmentation
Whole-site orthomosaics segmented into vegetation, water and bare ground across tiles stitched from multiple flights.
Ground Cover Quadrat Segmentation
2,275 cover-crop plot images annotated in Labelbox: plot corners boxed, then every pixel classed as groundcover, weed, residue, crop or soil.
Almond Tree Detection
Bounding boxes around individual almond trees in top-down drone imagery, where shadows and neighbouring vegetation mimicked real trees.