Automatic corn plant population measurement using machine vision

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 559-565

  Shrestha, Dev Sagar ^a   Steward, Brian L ^a,b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Image processing; Machine vision; Plant population; Precision agriculture; Video camera

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SENSORS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CORN PLANT POPULATION SENSING SYSTEMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CROP PLANT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037594440     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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