Drone Imagery Provides Valuable Insight on In‐Season Cover Crop Growth

Abstract

Cover crop management depends on building and estimating biomass amounts, which can vary across field and management settings. This study used multi‐flight drone imagery and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to map cover crop growth over three different winter seasons and compare it with spring biomass accumulation. Drone imagery can be used to enhance our understanding of winter crop growth, providing additional data to explain the resulting biomass across variable conditions. Earn 0.5 CEUs in Crop Management by reading this article and taking the quiz at https://web.sciencesocieties.org/Learning‐Center/Courses.