A survey of unmanned ground vehicles with applications to agricultural and environmental sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9866, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bonadies, Stephanie ^a   Lefcourt, Alan ^b   Gadsden, S Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; environment; sensing; survey; Unmanned ground vehicles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; CRASHWORTHINESS; CROPS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

COMMERCIAL OPERATION; CONTROL SCHEMES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; MECHANICAL WEEDING; SENSING; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 84982255125     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2224248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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