Identification of pruning branches in tall spindle apple trees for automated pruning

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-135

  Karkee, Manoj ^a   Adhikari, Bikram ^a   Amatya, Suraj ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D camera; Apple tree pruning; Machine vision; Pruning algorithm; Pruning branch identification; Selective pruning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; FORESTRY; FRUITS;

3-D CAMERAS; APPLE TREES; BRANCH IDENTIFICATION; PRUNING ALGORITHMS; SELECTIVE PRUNING;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA SET; FRUIT; PRODUCTION COST; PRUNING; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; PRUNING; TREES;

EID: 84897830169     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.02.013     Document Type: Article

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