Systems engineering approach to agricultural automation: New developments

Proceedings of the 1st Annual 2007 IEEE Systems Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 298-304

  Katupitiya, Jayantha ^a   Eaton, Ray ^a   Yaqub, Tahir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomous agricultural vehicles; Precision agriculture; Precision farming

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PRECISION FARMING;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34748876581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2007.374688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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