Spray boom for sensing and selectively spraying small mesquite on highway rights-of-way

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 661-666

  Wiedemann, H T ^a   Ueckert, D N ^a   McGinty, W A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Agricultural Extension Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Brush control; Herbicide; Precision sprayer; Prosopis; Tree sensing

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDES; PERFORMANCE; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIGHTS OF WAY; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

BRUSH CONTROL; PRECISION SPRAYER;

SPRAYING;

AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM STEBBENSI VIRUS; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA; SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 0036880924     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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