2019-11-29, Salgadoe, Surantha, Lamb, David

Phytophthora root rot disease (PRR) is a major threat in avocado orchards. To identify a potential alternative to the current methods of assessing PRR in avocado for example visual assessment of canopy decline by human eyes, data has been collected from number of novel remote sensing technologies for measuring PRR induced canopy decline in avocado. Included Red Green and Blue (RGB) imagery acquired from a smartphone; thermal imagery from a hand-held camera and hyperspectral data acquired with a hand-held FieldSpec® 3 spectroradiometer