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. 2025 Aug 12;16:1630162. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1630162

Table 1.

Examples of tutorials covered at the Plant Science Drone Methods webpage.

Step Method Link
A Introduction to drone use in plant science https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/Introduction/Methods.html
B Remote Pilot certification https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/Part107.pdf
C Mission Planning https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/MissionPlanning.pdf
D Processing raw images with Pix4Dmapper https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/Pix4D/Methods.html
E Introduction to QGIS https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/QGIS_introduction/Methods.html
F Making and editing a plot grid https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/PlotGrids/Methods.html
G Calculating vegetation indices https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/VegetationIndices/Methods.html
H Georeferencing with ground control points https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/Georeferencing/Methods.html
I Masking soil pixels https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/ClassificationLayers/Methods.html
J Canopy area extraction https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/CanopyArea/Methods.html
K Extracting vegetation index data https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/maskedNDVI/Methods.html
L Canopy height and volume https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/HeightVolume/Methods.html
M How to split a field map into plot images https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/FieldSplit/Methods.html
N Multispectral to true-color drone imagery https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/MultiSpecToRGB/Methods.html
O Automating processing with Python https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/AutomationScript/Methods.html
P Object detection and characterization with OpenCV and TensorFlow https://plantsciencedronemethods.github.io/pages/ObjectDetection/Methods.html