Site-specific weed management: Sensing requirements - What do we need to see?

Weed Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 252-258

  Brown, Ralph B ^a   Noble, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Machine vision; Remote sensing; Site specific; Spectral reflectance; Weed identification

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; IMAGING METHOD; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SEEDLING; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 28744454290     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/WS-04-068R1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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