Design of a decision support method to determine volume rate for vineyard spraying

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-151

  Gil, Emilio ^a   Escolà, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coverage; DOSAVI A; Dose; Efficiency; Spray application; Tree row volume; Vineyard; Volume rate

Indexed keywords

COVERAGE; DOSE; SPRAY APPLICATION; TREE-ROW-VOLUME; VINEYARD; VOLUME RATE;

CROPS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SPREADSHEETS;

APPLICATIONS;

VITIS;

EID: 65549102906     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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