Automated, low-cost yield mapping of wild blueberry fruit

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-232

  Zaman, Q U ^a   Swain, K C ^a   Schumann, A W ^b   Percival, D C ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

DGPS; Digital photography; GIS; Precision agriculture; Yield map

Indexed keywords

ARCVIEW; BARE SPOTS; CAMERA IMAGES; DATA POINTS; DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL COLOR; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FRUIT YIELD; GIS SOFTWARE; IN-FIELD; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NOVA SCOTIA; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SITE-SPECIFIC; WILD BLUEBERRIES; YIELD MAPPING; YIELD MAPS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL CAMERAS; FRUITS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARVESTERS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; LINEAR REGRESSION; PIXELS;

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EID: 77951248800     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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