Feasibility of monitoring coffee field ripeness with airborne multispectral imagery

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 845-849

  Johnson, Lee F ^a,b   Herwitz, Stanley R ^b,c   Lobitz, Bradley M ^d   Dunagan, Stephen E ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coffee; Harvest planning; Multi spectral image processing; Remote sensing; Ripeness evaluation; UAV

Indexed keywords

CROPS; HARVESTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COFFEE PLANTATION; HARVEST PLANNING; RIPENESS EVALUATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

EID: 14644435774     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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