Sprayer boom dynamic effects on application uniformity

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 647-658

  Jeon, H Y ^a   Womac, A R ^a   Gunn, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b John Deere Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Droplet transport; Environmental effects; Precision farming; Spray deposit; Spray drift; Spray variation; Standards

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; DIFFRACTION; DROP FORMATION; STANDARDS; TRAJECTORIES;

DROPLET SPECTRA; LASER DIFFRACTION; SPRAY DEPOSIT;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

PESTICIDE APPLICATION;

EID: 4243187977     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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