Non-contact laser spectroscopy for plant discrimination in terrestrial crop spraying

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12485-12493

  Sahba, Kaveh ^a   Askraba, Sreten ^a   Alameh, Kamal E ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

IMAGE SENSOR; NON-CONTACT SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

CROPS;

FARM CROPS; PLANTS; REFRACTIVITY;

EID: 33845410193     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012485     Document Type: Article

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