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Francisca López-Granados

Francisca López-Granados

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
46
Citations
9152
World Ranking
2666
National Ranking
108

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Agronomy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics

Her primary scientific interests are in Remote sensing, Precision agriculture, Weed control, Multispectral image and Weed. Her Remote sensing research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Mean squared error, Pixel, Early season and Vegetation. Her work on Image resolution expands to the thematically related Precision agriculture.

Her Weed control research incorporates themes from Weed detection and Environmental resource management. Her Multispectral image study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Image processing, Classifier, Segmentation and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Her Weed study necessitates a more in-depth grasp of Agronomy.

Her most cited work include:

  • Multi-temporal mapping of the vegetation fraction in early-season wheat fields using images from UAV (219 citations)
  • Weed mapping in early-season maize fields using object-based analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. (213 citations)
  • Configuration and specifications of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for early site specific weed management. (189 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Remote sensing, Precision agriculture, Weed, Agronomy and Weed control are her primary areas of study. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Image resolution, Pixel and Vegetation. Her Precision agriculture study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Tree, Statistics and Support vector machine, Artificial intelligence.

Her work in Weed addresses subjects such as Spatial distribution, which are connected to disciplines such as Geostatistics. Her research in Weed control intersects with topics in Agroforestry and Image acquisition. Her Multispectral image research incorporates elements of Hyperspectral imaging and Satellite imagery.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Remote sensing (36.63%)
  • Precision agriculture (36.63%)
  • Weed (33.66%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Photogrammetry (8.91%)
  • Remote sensing (36.63%)
  • Precision agriculture (36.63%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Francisca López-Granados spends much of her time researching Photogrammetry, Remote sensing, Precision agriculture, Weed and Tree. As part of her studies on Remote sensing, Francisca López-Granados often connects relevant subjects like Vegetation. In her study, Vine and Contextual image classification is inextricably linked to Crop, which falls within the broad field of Precision agriculture.

Much of her study explores Weed relationship to Weed control. Francisca López-Granados interconnects Mean squared error, Statistics and Agricultural engineering in the investigation of issues within Tree. Her Agronomy research integrates issues from Artificial neural network and Weed detection.

Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • An Automatic Random Forest-OBIA Algorithm for Early Weed Mapping between and within Crop Rows Using UAV Imagery (92 citations)
  • 3-D Characterization of Vineyards Using a Novel UAV Imagery-Based OBIA Procedure for Precision Viticulture Applications (48 citations)
  • Assessing UAV-collected image overlap influence on computation time and digital surface model accuracy in olive orchards (46 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agronomy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Botany

Her main research concerns Remote sensing, Photogrammetry, Precision agriculture, Weed control and Weed. Spatial analysis and RGB color model is closely connected to Tree in her research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Remote sensing. Her research integrates issues of Mean squared error and Similarity in her study of Photogrammetry.

Her Precision agriculture study frequently draws connections to adjacent fields such as Crop. Her Weed control study incorporates themes from Agroforestry, Segmentation and Arable land. Her work deals with themes such as Image resolution, Classifier, Algorithm, Random forest and Crop management, which intersect with Weed.

Best Publications

  • Multi-temporal mapping of the vegetation fraction in early-season wheat fields using images from UAV

    J. Torres-Sánchez;J.M. Peña;A.I. de Castro;F. López-Granados

  • Weed mapping in early-season maize fields using object-based analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images.

    José Manuel Peña;Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Ana Isabel de Castro;Maggi Kelly

  • Weed detection for site-specific weed management: mapping and real-time approaches

    F López-Granados

  • Configuration and Specifications of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Early Site Specific Weed Management

    Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Francisca López-Granados;Ana Isabel De Castro;José Manuel Peña-Barragán

  • Spatial variability of agricultural soil parameters in southern Spain

    Francisca López-Granados;Montserrat Jurado-Expósito;Silvia Atenciano;Alfonso García-Ferrer

  • Object- and pixel-based analysis for mapping crops and their agro-environmental associated measures using QuickBird imagery

    Isabel Luisa Castillejo-González;Francisca López-Granados;Alfonso García-Ferrer;José Manuel Peña-Barragán

  • An automatic object-based method for optimal thresholding in UAV images

    J. Torres-Sánchez;F. López-Granados;J.M. Peña

  • Assessing the accuracy of mosaics from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery for precision agriculture purposes in wheat

    D. Gómez-Candón;A. I. De Castro;F. López-Granados

  • An Automatic Random Forest-OBIA Algorithm for Early Weed Mapping between and within Crop Rows Using UAV Imagery

    Ana I. de Castro;Jorge Torres-Sánchez;José M. Peña;Francisco Manuel Jiménez-Brenes

  • High-Throughput 3-D Monitoring of Agricultural-Tree Plantations with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Technology

    Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Francisca López-Granados;Nicolás Serrano;Octavio Arquero

  • Quantifying efficacy and limits of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for weed seedling detection as affected by sensor resolution.

    José M. Peña;Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Angélica Serrano-Pérez;Ana I. de Castro

  • Fleets of robots for environmentally-safe pest control in agriculture

    Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos;Angela Ribeiro;Cesar Fernandez-Quintanilla;Francisca Lopez-Granados

  • Object-Based Image Classification of Summer Crops with Machine Learning Methods

    José M. Peña;Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez;César Hervás-Martínez;Johan Six

  • A semi-supervised system for weed mapping in sunflower crops using unmanned aerial vehicles and a crop row detection method

    M. Pérez-Ortiz;J.M. Peña;P.A. Gutiérrez;J. Torres-Sánchez

  • Early season weed mapping in sunflower using UAV technology: variability of herbicide treatment maps against weed thresholds

    Francisca López-Granados;Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Angélica Serrano-Pérez;Ana I. de Castro

  • Selecting patterns and features for between- and within- crop-row weed mapping using UAV-imagery

    María Pérez-Ortiz;José Manuel Peña;Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez;Jorge Torres-Sánchez

  • Using geostatistical and remote sensing approaches for mapping soil properties

    F. López-Granados;M. Jurado-Expósito;J.M. Peña-Barragán;L. García-Torres

  • Assessing Optimal Flight Parameters for Generating Accurate Multispectral Orthomosaicks by UAV to Support Site-Specific Crop Management

    Francisco-Javier Mesas-Carrascosa;Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Inmaculada Clavero-Rumbao;Alfonso García-Ferrer

  • Is the current state of the art of weed monitoring suitable for site-specific weed management in arable crops?

    C. Fernández‐Quintanilla;J. M. Peña;Dionisio Andújar;J. Dorado

  • Assessing UAV-collected image overlap influence on computation time and digital surface model accuracy in olive orchards

    Jorge Torres-Sánchez;Francisca López-Granados;Irene Borra-Serrano;José Manuel Peña

Frequent Co-Authors

César Hervás-Martínez
César Hervás-Martínez University of Córdoba
Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez
Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez University of Córdoba
Maggi Kelly
Maggi Kelly University of California, Berkeley
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Gonzalo Pajares
Gonzalo Pajares Complutense University of Madrid
Amparo Alonso-Betanzos
Amparo Alonso-Betanzos University of A Coruña
Angela Ribeiro
Angela Ribeiro Spanish National Research Council

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