Sugar cane yield monitoring system

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 965-969

  Mailander, M ^a,c   Benjamin, C ^a   Price, R ^b   Hall, S ^c  

^a LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS.; Harvester; Precision agriculture; Sensor; Sugar cane; Weighing; Yield monitor

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; GPS.; LOAD CELLS; MONITORING SYSTEM; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION SLOPE; YIELD MONITOR;

AGRICULTURE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARVESTERS; MONITORING; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SENSORS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); WEIGHING;

SUGAR CANE;

SACCHARUM;

EID: 78650331504     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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