An ultrasonic system for weed detection in cereal crops

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 17343-17357

  Andújar, Dionisio ^a   Weis, Martin ^a   Gerhards, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image processing; Ultrasonic distance sensor; Weed detection

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; ULTRASONIC DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS; ULTRASONIC DISTANCE SENSORS; WEED DETECTION;

CROPS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

WEED CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CEREAL; CROP; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEASON; ULTRASOUND; WEED; WEED CONTROL; WHEAT;

BIOMASS; CEREALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENT; PLANT WEEDS; SEASONS; TRITICUM; ULTRASONICS; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 84871691067     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s121217343     Document Type: Article

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