Viticanopy: A free computer app to estimate canopy vigor and porosity for grapevine

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  De Bei, Roberta ^a   Fuentes, Sigfredo ^b   Gilliham, Matthew ^a   Tyerman, Steve ^a   Edwards, Everard ^c   Bianchini, Nicolò ^c,d   Smith, Jason ^e,f   Collins, Cassandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f HOCHSCHULE GEISENHEIM UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canopy vigor; Computer application; Cover photography; Image analysis; LAI; Light extinction coefficient; PAI

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; IRRIGATION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POLYAMIDEIMIDES; POROSITY; SMARTPHONES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURES; CANOPY VIGOR; DESTRUCTIVE METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; LIGHT EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE; UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER; LIGHT; PLANT LEAF; POROSITY; SOFTWARE; TREE;

COMPUTERS; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; POROSITY; SOFTWARE; TREES;

EID: 84964285560     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16040585     Document Type: Article

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