UAV-based crop and weed classification for smart farming

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 3024-3031

  Lottes, Philipp ^a   Khanna, Raghav ^b   Pfeifer, Johannes ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^b   Stachniss, Cyrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBOTICS; SUGAR BEETS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FARM LAND; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOW COSTS; SWITZERLAND;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 85028026239     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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