Autonomous guidance for rice transplanting using global positioning and gyroscopes

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-234

  Nagasaka, Yoshisada ^a,b   Umeda, Naonobu ^a   Kanetai, Yutaka ^a   Taniwaki, Ken ^a   Sasaki, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated operation; FOG; Paddy fields; Rice transplanter; RTKGPS

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FIBER OPTICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GYROSCOPES;

FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES (FOG); RICE TRANSPLANTING;

CROPS;

PRECISION AGRICULTURE;

EID: 2442610658     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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