First prototype of an automated rotary hoe for mechanical weeding of the intra-row area in row crops and vegetables

Precision Agriculture 2009 - Papers Presented at the 7th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 733-740

  Gobor, Z ^a   Schulze Lammers, P ^b   Wendl, G ^a  

^a Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry   (Germany)

^b Institute of Agricultural Engineering   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intra row weeding; Plant detection; Weeding robot

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT INFORMATION; INTRA-ROW WEEDING; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL WEEDING; PLANT DETECTIONS; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEEDING ROBOTS;

CROPS; SUGAR BEETS; TOOLS;

VEGETABLES;

EID: 84863425587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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