A review on remote sensing of weeds in agriculture

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 477-508

  Thorp, K R ^a   Tian, L F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

remote sensing; vegetation indices; vegetative reflectance; weed detection; weed distribution

Indexed keywords

REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 7744240785     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-004-5321-1     Document Type: Article

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