Robotic Disease Detection in Greenhouses: Combined Detection of Powdery Mildew and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 354-360

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

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agricultural automation; computer vision for automation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; FRUITS; FUNGI; GREENHOUSES; MANIPULATORS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMBINED DETECTIONS; CONDITION DETECTION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DISEASE DETECTION; MULTIPLE DETECTION; PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 85058585372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23773766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2518214     Document Type: Article

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