Automatic green fruit counting in orange trees using digital images

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 127, Issue , 2016, Pages 572-581

  Maldonado, Walter ^a   Barbosa, José Carlos ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Citrus; Computer vision; Fruit detection; Precision agriculture; Yield estimation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; FRUITS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CITRUS; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PRODUCT MARKET STRATEGIES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; YIELD ESTIMATION;

CITRUS FRUITS;

COMPUTER VISION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITAL IMAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN TREE; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; FRUIT; MARKET SYSTEM; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; TREE; YIELD RESPONSE;

CITRUS; CITRUS SINENSIS;

EID: 84979521121     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2016.07.023     Document Type: Article

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