Yyield prediction in a commercial apple orchard by analyzing RGB and multi-spectral images of trees during flowering period

Precision Agriculture 2011 - Papers Presented at the 8th European Conference on Precision Agriculture 2011, ECPA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 617-627

  Liakos, V ^a   Tagarakis, A ^a   Aggelopoulou, K ^a   Kleftaki, X ^a   Mparas, G ^a   Fountas, S ^a   Gemtos, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apple; Flowers variability; Yield variability

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; ORCHARDS; SPECTROSCOPY;

APPLE; FLOWERS VARIABILITY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; YIELD PREDICTION; YIELD VARIABILITY;

FRUITS;

EID: 84913556049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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