Development of a robotic detection system for greenhouse pepper plant diseases

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 394-409

  Schor, Noa ^a,b   Berman, Sigal ^a   Dombrovsky, Aviv ^b   Elad, Yigal ^b   Ignat, Timea ^b   Bechar, Avital ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disease detection; Multispectral imagery; Powdery mildew; RGB imagery; Tomato spotted wilt virus

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ALGORITHM; BIOMONITORING; CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE CONTROL; FUNGAL DISEASE; HERB; IMAGING METHOD; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ERYSIPHALES; TOMATO SPOTTED WILT VIRUS;

EID: 85011835225     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-017-9503-z     Document Type: Article

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