Selective spraying of grapevines for disease control using a modular agricultural robot

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 203-215

  Oberti, Roberto ^a   Marchi, Massimo ^a   Tirelli, Paolo ^a   Calcante, Aldo ^a   Iriti, Marcello ^a   Tona, Emanuele ^a   Hočevar, Marko ^b   Baur, Joerg ^c   Pfaff, Julian ^c   Schütz, Christoph ^c   Ulbrich, Heinz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural robot; Automation; Crop protection; Disease sensing; Precision spraying

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CROPS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISEASE CONTROL; ROBOTS;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; CROP PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; FARMING PRACTICES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS; PRODUCTION COST; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

PESTICIDES;

EID: 84969944942     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.004     Document Type: Article

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