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Early identification of the potential reduction in yield from excess water stress at the plot scale provides stakeholders with the high-throughput information needed to assess risk and make responsive economic management decisions as well as future investments. The objective of this study is to analyze and evaluate the application of proximal remote sensing from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to detect excess water stress in soybean and predict the potential reduction in yield due to this excess water stress. A high-throughput data processing pipeline is developed to analyze multispectral images captured at the early development stages (R4\u2013R5) from a low-cost UAS over two radiation use efficiency experiments in West\u2013Central Indiana, USA. Above-ground biomass is estimated remotely to assess the soybean development by considering soybean genotype classes (High Yielding, High Yielding under Drought, Diversity, all classes) and transferring estimated parameters to a replicate experiment. Digital terrain analysis using the Topographic Wetness Index (TWI) is used to objectively compare plots more susceptible to inundation with replicate plots less susceptible to inundation. The results of the study indicate that proximal remote sensing estimates above-ground biomass at the R4\u2013R5 stage using adaptable and transferable methods, with a calculated percent bias between 0.8% and 14% and root mean square error between 72 g\/m2 and 77 g\/m2 across all genetic classes. The estimated biomass is sensitive to excess water stress with distinguishable differences identified between the R4 and R5 development stages; this translates into a reduction in the percent of expected yield corresponding with observations of in-field flooding and high TWI. 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