A new vision-based approach to differential spraying in precision agriculture

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-155

  Tellaeche, Alberto ^a   BurgosArtizzu, Xavier P ^b   Pajares, Gonzalo ^c   Ribeiro, Angela ^b   Fernández Quintanilla, César ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Machine vision; Multicriteria decision making; Precision agriculture; Weed detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DECISION THEORY; HERBICIDES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PRECISION ENGINEERING; SPRAYING; WEED CONTROL;

MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING STRATEGIES; WEED DETECTION;

HARVESTING;

CEREAL; COMPUTER VISION; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GRASS; HERBICIDE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; WEED CONTROL;

AVENA STERILIS;

EID: 38149030053     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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