Two fruit counting techniques for citrus mechanical harvesting machinery

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-191

  Ehsani, M R ^a   Grift, T E ^b   Maja, J M ^a   Zhong, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Poisson process; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; DEBRIS; HARVESTING; MACHINERY; PACKET NETWORKS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; POSITION CONTROL; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SENSORS;

ARRIVAL PROCESS; CONVEYOR BELTS; FIELD CONDITIONS; FLOW REGIMES; LABORATORY TESTING; MEAN PARTICLE DIAMETERS; MECHANICAL HARVESTING; POISSON; POISSON PROCESS; POTENTIAL ERRORS; TIME OF FLIGHT;

FRUITS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CALIBRATION; FERTILIZER; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FRUIT PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; MACHINERY; SENSOR;

CITRUS;

EID: 58649086940     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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