Machine vision-based weed spot spraying: A review and where next for sugarcane?

32nd Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 2010, ASSCT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 424-432

  McCarthy, Cheryl ^a   Rees, Steven ^a   Baillie, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Guinea grass; Image analysis; Machine vision; Precision agriculture; Weed identification

Indexed keywords

CROPS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SUGAR CANE;

DEMONSTRATION UNITS; GUINEA GRASS; INCREASE PRODUCTIONS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SHAPE AND TEXTURES; VEGETATION SPECIES; WEED IDENTIFICATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84904434322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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