Differentiation of crop and weeds by decision-tree analysis of multi-spectral data

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 873-879

  Yang, C C ^a   Prasher, S O ^a   Goel, P K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crop weed classification; Data mining; Decision trees; Multi spectrum; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES; SOYBEANS; VEGETATION INDEX;

CROPS;

CLASSIFICATION; CROP PLANT; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 4243129084     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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