Substantial vertical tree displacements occur during almond shaker harvesting

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-150

  Abdel Fattah, Hassan M ^a   Shackel, Ken A ^a   Slaughter, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Bark; Displacement; Frequency; Patterns of shaking

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DATA REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALMOND SHAKERS;

HARVESTING;

PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 0037703174     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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