Prototype variable rate sprayer for spot-application of agrochemicals in wild blueberry

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 717-725

  Esau, Travis J ^a   Zaman, Qamar U ^a   Chang, Young K ^a   Groulx, Dominic ^a   Schumann, Arnold W ^b   Farooque, Aitazaz A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Controllers; Digital camera; Image processing; Moss; Precision agriculture; Red sorrel

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

MOSS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RED SORREL; VARIABLE RATE; WILD BLUEBERRIES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84908470983     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13031/aea.30.10613     Document Type: Article

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