Detection of corn plant population and row spacing using computer vision

Proceedings of the 2011 2nd International Conference on Digital Manufacturing and Automation, ICDMA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 405-408

  Wang, Chuanyu ^a   Guo, Xinyu ^a   Zhao, Chunjiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE   (China)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Image sequence; Plant population; Plant spacing; Precision agriculture

Indexed keywords

CORN PLANT; EARLY GROWTH; IMAGE SEQUENCE; IMAGE THINNING; MOSAIC IMAGES; PLANT POPULATION; PLANT SPACING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; ROW LINE; ROW SPACING; VISION-BASED METHODS; VISION-BASED SYSTEM;

AGRICULTURE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MANUFACTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 80855136443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDMA.2011.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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