Detecting creeping thistle in sugar beet fields using vegetation indices

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 10-19

  Kazmi, Wajahat ^a   Garcia Ruiz, Francisco Jose ^b   Nielsen, Jon ^b   Rasmussen, Jesper ^b   Jørgen Andersen, Hans ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Precision agriculture; Sugar beet; Thistle; Vegetation index; Weed detection

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WEED CONTROL;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION; THISTLE; VEGETATION EXTRACTIONS; VEGETATION INDEX; WEED DETECTION;

SUGAR BEETS;

EID: 84939996356     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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