Pre-harvest weed mapping of Cirsium arvense in wheat and barley with off-the-shelf UAVs

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 983-999

  Rasmussen, J ^a   Nielsen, J ^a   Streibig, J C ^a   Jensen, J E ^b   Pedersen, K S ^a   Olsen, S I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SEGES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cereals; Image analysis; Perennial weeds; Site specific weed management; Weed detection

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERENNIAL PLANT; WEED CONTROL; WHEAT;

CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 85058479584     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-018-09625-7     Document Type: Article

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