SOFTWARE FOR MONITORING AND CONTROL OF INDICATORS FOR BREEDING PROCESSES OF SOYBEAN CROPS
The article presents the analysis of software solutions for monitoring and control of indicators for breeding processes of soybean crops, which will help breeders to face their tasks. Given the characteristics of each plot, and sometimes a single plant, it will be possible to assess soybean crops in different phases of vegetation development. During the software selection, there was the analysis of domestic and foreign programs for monitoring with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), processing of aerial photography materials and performing ground measurements. Particular attention was paid to such factors as: the planning and execution of flight missions, the compilation of an accurate orthophoto, creating digital terrain models (DTMs) and digital elevation model (DEM), calculation of vegetation indices and the compilation of vegetation maps, obtaining the coordinates with the possibility to load a general map of the field and the implementation of ground-based measurements of parameters for plant growth. Properly selected software will allow for automatic aerial photography with UAVs and automatic data processing with subsequent visualization to solve the breeder problems.