EasyPCC: Benchmark datasets and tools for high-throughput measurement of the plant canopy coverage ratio under field conditions

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Guo, Wei ^a   Zheng, Bangyou ^b   Duan, Tao ^b,c   Fukatsu, Tokihiro ^d   Chapman, Scott ^b,e   Ninomiya, Seishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital images; Field image data; Phenotyping; Plant canopy coverage ratio

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; MATLAB; THROUGHPUT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CROP GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; DIGITAL IMAGE; FIELD IMAGES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING; PHENOTYPING; PLANT CANOPIES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85017300398     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17040798     Document Type: Article

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