An automated yield monitoring system II for commercial wild blueberry double-head harvester

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-103

  Chang, Young K ^a   Zaman, Qamar ^a   Farooque, Aitazaz A ^a   Schumann, Arnold W ^b   Percival, David C ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital photography; Image processing; Precision agriculture; Variable rate fertilization; Wild blueberry; Yield monitoring

Indexed keywords

BARE SPOTS; CAMERA IMAGES; CROP PRODUCTIVITY; DATA POINTS; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; EYE COLOR; FRUIT YIELD; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IN-FIELD; MONITORING SYSTEM; NOVA SCOTIA; POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PRESCRIPTION MAP; REAL TIME; SITE SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT; SITE-SPECIFIC; VARIABLE RATE FERTILIZATION; WILD BLUEBERRIES; YIELD MAPPING;

CAMERAS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRUITS; HARVESTERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MONITORING; PIXELS; PRODUCTIVITY; REAL VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAPPING;

CALIBRATION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FRUIT; GIS; GPS; HARVESTING; MODEL VALIDATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; PIXEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REAL TIME; SOFTWARE;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

VACCINIUM;

EID: 84055200836     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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