Quantitative analysis of cotton canopy size in field conditions using a consumer-grade RGB-D camera

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Jiang, Yu ^a   Li, Changying ^a   Paterson, Andrew H ^b,c   Sun, Shangpeng ^a   Xu, Rui ^a   Robertson, Jon ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton; Field; High throughput; Morphological; Phenotyping; RGB D

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041300084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02233     Document Type: Article

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