Williamson, AlexMondal, SabyasachiXu, ZhengjiaTsourdos, Antonios2023-05-152023-05-152020-02-17Williamson A, Mondal S, Xu Z, Tsourdos A. (2019) Autonomous collection of ground truth data by unmanned aerial vehicles instructed using SMS text messages. In: 2019 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED UAS), 25-27 November 2019, Cranfield, UK.978-1-7281-6601-8https://doi.org/10.1109/REDUAS47371.2019.8999680https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19644This paper describes a solution to increase the efficiency of collecting agricultural ground truth data by the use of one or more off-the-shelf drones to autonomously collect high quality RGB image data at low level, through the incorporation of a bespoke smartphone application that receives routing path-planned location data in the form of Short Message Service (SMS) text messages.enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 InternationalAndroid ApplicationAutonomous ground truthConference paper978-1-7281-6600-1