Can compliance to crop production standards be automatically assessed?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 899-906

  Nash, E ^a   Vatsanidou, A ^b,c   Fountas, S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c Center for Research and Technology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automation; Information management; Regulations; Rules

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; COMPLIANCE CHECKING; CROP PRODUCTION; REGULATIONS; RULES;

COMPLIANCE CONTROL; CULTIVATION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84893409650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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