Multispectral machine vision identification of lettuce and weed seedlings for automated weed control

Weed Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 378-384

  Slaughter, David C ^a   Giles, D Ken ^a   Fennimore, Steven A ^a   Smith, Richard F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Machine vision; Multispectral images; Reflectance; Robotics; Weed detection; Weed recognition

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEAFY VEGETABLE; MECHANICAL CONTROL; NEAR INFRARED; REAL TIME; ROBOTICS; WEED CONTROL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LACTUCA;

EID: 46049097344     PISSN: 0890037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/WT-07-104.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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