development of an autonomous weeding machine requires a vision system capable of detecting and locating the position of the crop. it is important for the vision system to be able to recognize the accurate position of the crop stem to be protected during weeding. several shape features of corn plants and common weed species in the location were extracted by means of morphological operations. eff...

It is important to detect crop rows accurately for field navigation. In order to spray on line, a variable rate spray system should detect the crop center line accurately. Most existing detection algorithms are slow to detect crop rows because of the complicated calculation. The gradient-based Random Hough Transform algorithm could improve the calculation speed and reduce the computation effect...

This paper proposes a new method, oriented to crop row detection in images from maize fields with high weed pressure. The vision system is designed to be installed onboard a mobile agricultural vehicle, i.e. submitted to gyros, vibrations and undesired movements. The images are captured under image perspective, being affected by the above undesired effects. The image processing consists of thre...

This paper reports on development of a robotic navigator, “Robo Kisan”, developed to assist the farmer in the crop field and show the complete function of the sensor for crop disease detection. This robotic navigator equipped with sensors for automatic mobility in the crop field is developed in two folds: Hardware design and Software design. A short description of the sensor for crop disease de...

Computer vision can be used within precision farming to carry out crop row tracking and weed detection, looking for objectives such as vehicle steering and selective weed removing. Previous work used static parametric search areas to look for similar crop lines between consecutive frames in a sequence. This new work improves that method by introducing a camera kinetic model which generates dyna...

Increasing crop yields to ensure food security is a major challenge. Mutagenesis is an important tool in crop improvement and is free of the regulatory restrictions imposed on genetically modified organisms. The forward genetic approach enables the identification of improved or novel phenotypes that can be exploited in conventional breeding programmes. Powerful reverse genetic strategies that a...

Information on rice crop phenology is important for crop management. This study aimed to detect rice crop phenology in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta using time-series MODIS data in 2007. Data processing steps included: (1) constructing time-series MODIS NDVI data, (2) filtering noise from the time-series data using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and wavelet transform, (3) detecting rice crop ...