An image-based method to study the fruit tree canopy and the pruning biomass production in a peach orchard

HortScience

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1809-1817

  Lordan, Joan ^a   Pascual, Miquel ^a   Fonseca, Francisco ^a   Montilla, Víctor ^a   Papió, Josep ^a   Rufat, Josep ^b   Villar, Josep M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital photography; Orthoimage canopy area; Pruning weight; Trunk diameter; Virtual pruning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954312075     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: 23279834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.50.12.1809     Document Type: Article

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