Abstract
Tulip breaking virus (TBV) causes severe economic losses for the Netherlands. Infected
plants must be removed from the field as soon as possible to prevent further spread by
aphids. Until now screening is done by visual inspection in the field. As the availability of
human experts is limited there is an urgent need for a rapid, automated and objective method
of screening. Based on laboratory experiments in 2008, we developed a vision method for
use in the open field. From 2009 – 2011 field trials were carried out and the techniques were
tested and improved. The final score of our system in the last experiment (2011) approached
the scores obtained by the human crop experts.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | International Conference of Agricultural Engineering, Valencia, Spain - Duration: 8 Jul 2012 → 12 Jul 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference of Agricultural Engineering, Valencia, Spain |
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| Period | 8/07/12 → 12/07/12 |
Keywords
- plant viruses
- tulip breaking virus
- precision agriculture
- monitoring
- tests
- image processing
- robots