Development and testing of a decision making based method to adjust automatically the harrowing intensity

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6254-6271

  Rueda Ayala, Victor ^a   Weis, Martin ^a   Keller, Martina ^a   Andújar, Dionisio ^a   Gerhards, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop weed soil sensors; Crop weed soil variability; Fuzzy logic; Precision weed control; Selectivity; Site specific harrowing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CAMERAS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; FUZZY LOGIC; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; SOILS; WEED CONTROL;

CROP-WEED-SOIL VARIABILITY; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE; FIELD VARIABILITY; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; INTENSITY ADJUSTMENT; SITE-SPECIFIC; WEED INFESTATION;

CROPS;

EID: 84878095239     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130506254     Document Type: Article

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