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The aim of the study was to compare traditional methods of soil roughness and cloddiness assessment (laser profile meter and manual sieving), with light drone RGB 3D imaging techniques for the evaluation of different tillage methods (ploughed, harrowed and grassed). Light drone application was able to replicate the results obtained by the traditional methods, introducing advantages in terms of time, repeatability and analysed surface while reducing the human error during the data collection on the one hand and allowing a labour-intensive field monitoring solution for digital farming on the other. Indeed, the profilometer positioning introduces errors and may lead to false reading due to limited data collection. Future work could be done in order to streamline the data processing operation and so to produce a practical application ready to use and stimulate the adoption of new evaluation indices of soil cloddiness, such as Entropy and the Angular Second Moment (ASM), which seem more suitable than the classic ones to achieved data referred to more extended surfaces.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20030728","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,29]],"date-time":"2020-01-29T10:51:07Z","timestamp":1580295067000},"page":"728","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Light Drone-Based Application to Assess Soil Tillage Quality Parameters"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4742-9408","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roberto","family":"Fanigliulo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8584-6018","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesca","family":"Antonucci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Simone","family":"Figorilli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daniele","family":"Pochi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2035-1257","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Federico","family":"Pallottino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Fornaciari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Renato","family":"Grilli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3711-1399","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Corrado","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L\u2019analisi Dell\u2019economia Agraria (CREA)-Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Zhou, J. 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