Management zone delineation using a modified watershed algorithm

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 233-250

  Roudier, Pierre ^a,b   Tisseyre, Bruno ^c   Poilvé, Hervé ^b   Roger, Jean Michel ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^c MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Management zones; Remote sensing; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; TESTING METHOD; WATERSHED;

EID: 52549129336     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-008-9067-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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