Active optical sensors for tree stem detection and classification in nurseries

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 10783-10803

  Garrido, Miguel ^a   Perez Ruiz, Manuel ^b   Valero, Constantino ^a   Gliever, Chris J ^c   Hanson, Bradley D ^c   Slaughter, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

LIDAR; Light curtain transmission; Optical sensors; State tree classification; Tree stem detection

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL SENSORS; SENSORS;

ACTIVE OPTICAL SENSORS; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; LIGHT CURTAINS; LINEAR DISPLACEMENTS; OPTICAL ENCODER; PROTOTYPE VEHICLES; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; TREE STEMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; PROCEDURES; SEEDLING; TRANSDUCER; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASERS; METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEMS; SEEDLING; TRANSDUCERS; TREES;

EID: 84902954824     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140610783     Document Type: Article

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