High-throughput phenotyping has been widely studied in plant science to monitor plant growth and analyze the influence of genotypes and environment on plant growth. To meet the demand of large-scale high-throughput phenotyping, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed for near-ground remote sensing. UAVs based remote sensing has been used for high-throughput phenotyping of various traits of plants. This review focused on the applications of UAVs based remote sensing of different traits with different phenotyping sensors. In this review, the UAVs platforms and the phenotyping sensors were briefly introduced. The applications of UAVs to obtain and analyze plant phenotype traits were introduced and summarized by the traits in a more comprehensive way. A comparison of different phenotyping sensors was conducted. Furthermore, the challenges and future prospects of phenotype information acquisition and data analysis using UAVs as remote sensing platforms were also discussed. Since the current studies from various countries and researchers were fragmented to just explore the feasibility of UAVs based high-throughput phenotyping, this review aimed to provide the researchers and readers the current applications of UAVs for high-throughput phenotyping and how the studies were conducted, provide guidelines for future studies.

高通量表型已在植物科学中得到广泛研究，以监测植物生长并分析基因型和环境对植物生长的影响。为了满足大规模高通量表型的需求，已经开发了用于近地遥感的无人飞行器（UAV）。基于无人机的遥感技术已用于植物各种性状的高通量表型分析。这篇综述集中在基于无人机的具有不同表型传感器的不同性状遥感上的应用。在这篇评论中，简要介绍了无人机平台和表型传感器。介绍了无人机在获取和分析植物表型性状中的应用，并通过这些性状进行了较为全面的总结。进行了不同表型传感器的比较。此外，讨论了使用无人机作为遥感平台进行表型信息采集和数据分析的挑战和未来前景。由于目前来自各个国家和研究人员的研究分散在一起，只是为了探索基于无人机的高通量表型的可行性，因此，本综述旨在为研究人员和读者提供无人机在高通量表型上的当前应用以及如何进行研究，为将来的研究提供指导。