Accurate pre-harvest estimation of avocado (Persea americana cv. Haas) yield offers a range of benefits to industry and growers. Currently there is no commercial yield monitor available for avocado tree crops and the manual count method used for yield forecasting can be highly inaccurate. Remote sensing using satellite imagery offers a potential means to achieve accurate pre-harvest yield forec...

Legal requirements and consumer demands have motivated the development application of traceability technology. Farming practices are starting point agri-food supply chain destination system (AFTS). The amount resource information complexity production process become main obstacles to wide AFTS. This study introduces an integrated machine-to-machine that allows collecting field operation automat...

Steven J. Nowlan Synaptics, Inc. 2698 Orchard Parkway San Jose, CA 95134 We describe an extension to the Mixture of Experts architecture for modelling and controlling dynamical systems which exhibit multiple modes of behavior. This extension is based on a Markov process model, and suggests a recurrent network for gating a set of linear or non-linear controllers. The new architecture is demonstr...

in order to study the sensitivity of vegetative growth to water deficit stress of a late-maturing peach (prunus persica l. cv. elberta) under orchard conditions, an experiment was conducted as randomized complete-block design with three treatments and four repetitions in shahdiran commercial orchard in mashhad during 2011. three irrigation treatments including 360 (low stress), 180 (moderate st...

This research was conducted to assess the potential of hyperspectral indices to detect iron deficiency in capital-intensive multi-annual crop systems. A well-defined hyperspectral multi-layer dataset was constructed for a peach orchard in Zaragoza, Spain, consisting of hyperspectral measurements at various monitoring levels (leaf, crown, airborne). Trees were subjected to four different treatme...

an orchard experiment was conducted at gonabad pistachio production station., khorasan, iran (1998-2003). in some pistachio trees, especially in cv. owhadi, leaf marginal chlorosis was already observed. then, gradual drying of leaves extended to the leaves' centers up to midsummer. with respect to salinity problems, some researches were done. two orchards of pistachio known as no.6 and no....