Vision-based approach to automate spraying in crop fields

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3364, Issue , 1998, Pages 287-297

  Sanchiz, Jose M ^a   Pla, Filiberto ^a   Marchant, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural applications; Autonomous vehicles; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; ATOMIZERS; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NOZZLES; SENSORS; VEHICLES;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATIONS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CHEMICAL SPRAYING; CROP FIELDS; FEATURE-TRACKING; IMAGE SEQUENCES; MACHINE VISION; MOTION PARAMETERS; REAL IMAGE SEQUENCES; SENSOR DEVICES; VEHICLE NAVIGATIONS; VISION-BASED;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

EID: 0038368343     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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