Using a competition model to quantify the optimal trade-off between machine vision capability and weed removal effectiveness

Weed Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 388-405

  Grundy, A C ^a,d   Onyango, C M ^b   Phelps, K ^a   Reader, R J ^a   Marchant, J A ^b   Benjamin, L R ^c   Mead, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d Plant Establishment and Vegetation Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broccoli; Cabbage; Cauliflower; Image analysis; Leek; Mechanical weed control; Organic farming; Tripleurospermum inodorum; Veronica persica

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DETECTION METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ORGANIC FARMING; TRADE-OFF; TRANSPLANTATION; WEED;

TRIPLEUROSPERMUM; TRIPLEUROSPERMUM INODORUM; VERONICA; VERONICA PERSICA;

EID: 33745336955     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2005.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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