PhytoSampler - a handheld support system to facilitate sampling, measurement and mapping of plantcanopies

2006 ASABE Annual International Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gardi, Jonathan E ^a   Wulfsohn, Dvoralai ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological variabWty; Fractionator; Fruit; Greenhouse plants; Handheld; Leaves; Measurement; Morphology; Number; Orchard; Point counting; Precision agriculture; Sampling in n D; Stereology; Surface area; Trees; Variance prediction8Yield

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL VARIABWTY; FRACTIONATOR; HANDHELD; LEAVES; NUMBER; POINT COUNTING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; STEREOLOGY; SURFACE AREA; TREES; VARIANCE PREDICTION8YIELD;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FRUITS; GREENHOUSES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; ORCHARDS; SPECIFICATIONS;

MAPPING;

EID: 67649859401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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