Automated system to quantify the behavior of small insects in a four-pointed star olfactometer

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 545-550

  Vigneault, C ^a,b   Panneton, B ^a,b   Cormier, D ^c   Boivin, G ^b  

^a ASAE ^*  (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automation; Behavior; Image analysis; Insect; Olfactometer; Parasitoid; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ANAPHES; ANAPHES LISTRONOTI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MYMARIDAE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

OLFACTOMETERS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

EID: 0031187916     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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