Design and implementation of a computer vision-guided greenhouse crop diagnostics system

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 495-506

  Story, David ^a   Kacira, Murat ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Crop monitoring; Data acquisition; Greenhouse; Image processing

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GREENHOUSES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINANCE; STEPPING MOTORS; VEGETATION;

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTERS; CROP MONITORING; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; GROWING ENVIRONMENTS; IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; NUTRIENT FILM TECHNIQUES;

MONITORING;

EID: 84939958507     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-015-0670-5     Document Type: Article

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