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This paper reports some experiences related to the analysis of cultivations (vineyards and tomatoes) with Tetracam multispectral data. The Tetracam camera was mounted on a multi-rotor hexacopter. The multispectral data were processed with a photogrammetric pipeline to create triband orthoimages of the surveyed sites. Those orthoimages were employed to extract some Vegetation Indices (VI) such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI), and the Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), examining the vegetation vigor for each crop. The paper demonstrates the great potential of high-resolution UAV data and photogrammetric techniques applied in the agriculture framework to collect multispectral images and evaluate different VI, suggesting that these instruments represent a fast, reliable, and  cost-effective resource in crop assessment for precision farming applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70404026","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]],"date-time":"2015-04-07T03:47:46Z","timestamp":1428378466000},"page":"4026-4047","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":653,"title":["Evaluating Multispectral Images and Vegetation Indices for Precision Farming Applications from UAV Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Sebastian","family":"Candiago","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"DiSCi, Geography Sec., University of Bologna, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, I-40124 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6097-5342","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabio","family":"Remondino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Optical Metrology Unit, Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Via Sommarive 18,  I-38123 Trento, Italy"}]},{"given":"Michaela","family":"De Giglio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DICAM, School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2,  I-40136 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"given":"Marco","family":"Dubbini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DiSCi, Geography Sec., University of Bologna, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, I-40124 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"given":"Mario","family":"Gattelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"SAL Engineering, via Vittorio Veneto 2, I-41124 Modena, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"157","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2003.04.007","article-title":"Remote sensing applications for precision agriculture: A learning community approach","volume":"88","author":"Santhosh","year":"2003","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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