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Sensing and control for plant scale husbandry

ReferenceD08190
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor J Marchant
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution Silsoe Research Institute
DepartmentResearch Division
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 192,177
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/04/1998
End date 01/04/2001
Duration36 months

Abstract

Plant Scale Husbandry (PSH) aims to improve the targeting of crop protection methods by sensing crop and weed position very accurately (e.g. to 10 mm) using a TV camera mounted on a vehicle coupled with real-time machine vision. In preliminary work, Silsoe Research Institute has developed a testbed vehicle and sensing systems, and used this to demonstrate that PSH might be feasible. The proposed work will investigate three new areas, i.e. robust image segmentation, extending the operational range to a practically useful level, and developing algorithms that can run on the common computing platforms of the future.

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Committee Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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