Mobile terrestrial laser scanner applications in precision fruticulture/horticulture and tools to extract information from canopy point clouds

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 111-132

  Escolà, Alexandre ^a   Martínez Casasnovas, José A ^a   Rufat, Josep ^b   Arnó, Jaume ^a   Arbonés, Amadeu ^b   Sebé, Francesc ^a   Pascual, Miquel ^a   Gregorio, Eduard ^a   Rosell Polo, Joan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canopy modelling; Crop mapping; LiDAR; Mobile terrestrial laser scanner; Olive orchard; Precision fruticulture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ALGORITHM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CORRELATION; CROP PLANT; EVERGREEN TREE; GEOMETRY; HORTICULTURE; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; MAPPING; MOBILE PHONE; ORCHARD; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SCANNER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84990834274     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-016-9474-5     Document Type: Article

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