Discriminating crop, weeds and soil surface with a terrestrial LIDAR sensor

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 14662-14675

  Andújar, Dionisio ^a   Rueda Ayala, Victor ^a   Moreno, Hugo ^a   Rosell Polo, Joan Ramón ^b   Escolà, Alexandre ^b   Valero, Constantino ^c   Gerhards, Roland ^a   Fernández Quintanilla, César ^d   Dorado, José ^d   Griepentrog, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemical control; Site specific weed control; Weed proximal sensing

Indexed keywords

BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; CHEMICAL CONTROLS; DISCRIMINATION ANALYSIS; LIDAR DATA ACQUISITIONS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS; SITE-SPECIFIC; WEED PROXIMAL-SENSING;

CROPS; SENSORS; SOILS; VEGETATION; WEED CONTROL;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84886815163     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s131114662     Document Type: Article

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