Propagation of positional measurement errors to agricultural field boundaries and associated costs

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-256

  de Bruin, S ^a   Heuvelink, G B M ^a   Brown, J D ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; GIS; GPS; Path planning; Stochastic simulation; Temporal correlation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; ERRORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAND USE; MAPS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; ASSOCIATED COSTS; CASE STUDIES; DATA UNCERTAINTIES; DIFFERENTIAL GPS (DGPS); DIGITAL MAPS; ELSEVIER (CO); ERROR MODELING; FIELD BOUNDARIES; FIELD DATA; FIELD OPERATIONS; FREE SOFTWARE (FS); POTATO CROP; PRECISION-FARMING; RANDOM SAMPLES; REAL TIME KINEMATIC (RTK); RTK-GPS; SPATIAL OBJECTS; STATISTICAL MODELLING; TEMPORAL CORRELATION (TC); TEST CASES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POTATO; STOCHASTICITY; SURVEY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 46849091157     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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