Fiber optic yield monitor for a sugarcane harvester

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-39

  Price, Randy R ^a   Johnson, Richard M ^b   Viator, Ryan P ^b   Larsen, John ^c   Peters, Alex ^c  

^a Kansas State University   (United States)

^b USDA ARS Sugarcane Research Unit   (United States)

^c United States Sugar Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS; Mapping; Precision agriculture; Sugarcane; Yield monitor

Indexed keywords

DUTY CYCLES; ESTIMATED ERROR; FIELD TESTING; GPS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MAINTENANCE FREE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PREDICTION ERRORS; SENSOR RESPONSE; SUGARCANE YIELD; YIELD MONITOR;

AGRICULTURE; ELEVATORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; HARVESTERS; MONITORING; PHOTONICS; SENSORS; SOIL TESTING;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

FIBER OPTICS; GPS; HARVESTING; MACHINERY; MAPPING; MONITORING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SOIL TYPE; SUGAR CANE; YIELD RESPONSE;

EID: 79951815759     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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