An approach to the use of depth cameras for weed volume estimation

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Andújar, Dionisio ^a   Dorado, José ^b   Fernández Quintanilla, César ^b   Ribeiro, Angela ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kinect v2; Maize; Plant volume estimation; Weed detection; Weed crop structure characterization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CAMERAS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SOILS; WEED CONTROL;

KINECT V2; MAIZE; STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS; WEED DETECTION;

CROPS;

EID: 84975880667     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16070972     Document Type: Article

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