Development of line-detection algorithms for local positioning in densely seeded crops

Canadian Biosystems Engineering / Le Genie des biosystems au Canada

Volumn 48, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fontaine, V ^a   Crowe, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous robot; Crop row detection; Line detection; Machine vision; Positioning system; Weed detection; Weed scout

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; HERBICIDES; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

CROP ROW DETECTION; LINE DETECTION; POSITIONING SYSTEM; WEED DETECTION; WEED SCOUT;

CROPS;

FARM CROPS; POSITIONING; ROBOTS; WEEDS;

EID: 33846201247     PISSN: 14929058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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