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Remote Sens. 2010, 2, 290-305; doi:10.3390/rs2010290 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Acquisition of NIR-Green-Blue Digital Photographs from Unmanned Aircraft for Crop Monitoring E. Raymond Hunt, Jr. 1,*, W. Dean Hively 1, Stephen J. Fujikawa 2, David S. Linden 3, 1 1 Craig S. T. Daughtry and Greg W. McCarty 1 USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Building 007 Room 104 BARC-West, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA; E-Mails: Dean.Hively@ (W.D.H.); Craig.Daughtry@ (C.S.T.D); Greg.McCarty@ (G.W.M.) 2 IntelliTech Microsystems, Inc., 2138 Priest Bridge Court, Suite 3, Crofton, MD 2 1114, USA; E-Mail: sfujikawa@ 3 DSL Consulting, Inc., 7611 Kingfisher Court, Dexter, MI 48130, USA; E-Mail: mail@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Raymond.Hunt@; Tel.: +1-301-504-5278; Fax: +1-301-504-8931. Received: 8 November 2009; in revised form: 1 December 2009 / Accepted: 6 January 2010 / Published: 11 January 2010 Abstract: Payload size and weight are critical factors for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Digital color-infrared photographs were acquired from a single 12-megapixel camera that did not have an internal hot-mirror filter and had a red-light-blocking filter in front of the lens, resulting in near-infrared (NIR), green and blue images. We tested the UAV-camera system over two variably-fertilized fields of winter wheat and found a good correlation between leaf area ind