This volume reviews existing "state-of-art" knowledge, highlights the advances made, and provides guidance for appropriate use of hyperspectral data in applications such as crop yield modeling, crop biophysical and biochemical property characterization, and crop moisture assessment. Includes extensive discussions on data processing mechanisms.

Section I: Vegetation Biophysical and Biochemical Properties 1. Recent Developments in Remote Estimation of Crop Biophysical and Biochemical Properties at Various Scales 2. Hyperspectral Assessment of Ecophysiological Functioning for Diagnostics of Crops and Vegetation 3. Spectral and Spatial Methods for Hyperspectral and Thermal Image-Analysis to Estimate Biophysical and Biochemical Properties of Agricultural Crops 4. Spectral and 3D Nonspectral Approaches to Crop Trait Estimation Using Ground and UAV Sensing 5. Photosynthetic Efficiency and Vegetation Stress Section II: Plant Species Identification and Discrimination 6. Crop Type Discrimination Using Hyperspectral Data: Advances and Perspectives 7. Identification of Canopy Species in Tropical Forests Using Hyperspectral Data 8. Characteristics of Tropical Tree Species in Hyperspectral and Multispectral Data 9. Detecting and Mapping Invasive Plant Species Using Hyperspectral Data 10. Visible, Near Infrared, and Thermal Spectral Radiance On-Board UAVs for High-Throughput Phenotyping of Plant Breeding Trials Section III: Conclusions 11. Fifty Years of Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Vegetation-Summary, Insights, and Highlights of Volume III: Biophysical and Biochemical Characterization and Plant Species Studies