Classification of crops and weeds from digital images: A support vector machine approach

Crop Protection

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 98-104

  Ahmed, Faisal ^a   Al Mamun, Hawlader Abdullah ^b   Bari, A S M Hossain ^c   Hossain, Emam ^d   Kwan, Paul ^b  

^a ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c Samsung Bangladesh R and D Center Ltd   (Bangladesh)

^d AHSANULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Herbicide; Machine vision system; RBF kernel; Stepwise features selection; Weeds control

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VECTOR; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 84863671281     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2012.04.024     Document Type: Article

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