Estimating wheat biomass by combining image clustering with crop height

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 121, Issue , 2016, Pages 374-384

  Schirrmann, Michael ^a   Hamdorf, André ^a   Garz, Andreas ^b   Ustyuzhanin, Anton ^c   Dammer, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c RUSSIAN STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Clustering; Image segmentation; NDVI; Optical sensors; Precision agriculture; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SENSORS; PIXELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLUSTERING; DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; NDVI; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SENSOR FUSION; SITE SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; NDVI; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SENSOR; SITE SELECTION; VIDEOGRAPHY; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84954563815     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2016.01.007     Document Type: Article

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