Evaluation of a LiDAR-based 3D-stereoscopic vision system for crop-monitoring applications

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-13

  Bietresato, Marco ^a   Carabin, Giovanni ^a   Vidoni, Renato ^a   Gasparetto, Alessandro ^b   Mazzetto, Fabrizio ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agricultural robotic system; Canopy detection; Lateral linear stereoscopic vision; LiDAR; Vision systems; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; OPTICAL RADAR; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SITE-SPECIFIC FARMING; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISIBLE-LIGHT WAVELENGTHS; VISION SYSTEMS; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTION METHOD; LIDAR; ROBOTICS; STEREO IMAGE; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VISION; VOLUME CHANGE;

EID: 84961665297     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2016.03.017     Document Type: Article

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