Automation in tree fruit production : principles and practice / edited by Qin Zhang, Washington State University, USA.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2018Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) : illustrations, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781780648521
- 9781780648514
- Precision farming
- Farm mechanization
- Fruit trees
- Agricultural economics
- Automation
- Canopy
- Centre pivot irrigation
- Crop production
- Crops
- Detection
- Fertigation
- Fruit crops
- Fruit growing
- Fruit trees
- Handling
- Horticulture
- Mechanical harvesting
- Mechanization
- Orchards
- Perennial cropping
- Pest management
- Pests
- Plant diseases
- Plant pests
- Precision agriculture
- Robots
- Sensing
- Sensors
- Stress
- Tree fruits
- Tree shakers
- Trees
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- S494.5.P73 A98 2018eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tree fruit production automation / Qin Zhang -- The economics of perennial crops' production automation / R. Karina Gallardo and David Zilberman -- Sensing for stress detection and high-throughput phenotyping in precision horticulture / Sindhuja Sankaran, Chongyuan Zhang and Afef Marzougui -- Light interception and canopy sensing for tree fruit canopy management / Francisco Rojo, Jingjin Zhang, Shrinivasa Upadhyaya and Qin Zhang -- Precision orchard systems / Matthew Whiting -- Variable rate irrigation on center pivots / R. Troy Peters -- Precision technologies for pest and disease management / Lav Khot, Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel, Yasin Osroosh and Reza Ehsani -- Precision nutrient management / Gerry Neilsen and Denise Neilsen -- Precise crop load management / Caixi Zhang and Du Chen -- Mechanical harvest and in-field handling of tree fruit crops / Manoj Karkee, Abhisesh Silwal and Joseph R. Davidson -- Opportunity of robotics in precision horticulture / Thomas Burks, Duke Bulanon and Siddhartha Mehta.
This book on automation in tree fruit production consists of 11 chapters covering the following topics: (1) concept of tree fruit production automation; (2) economics of perennial crops production automation; (3) sensing for stress detection and high-throughput phenotyping in precision horticulture; (4) light interception and canopy sensing for tree fruit canopy management; (5) precision orchard systems; (6) variable rate irrigation on centre pivots; (7) precision technologies for pest and disease management; (8) precision nutrient management; (9) precise crop load management; (10) mechanical harvest and in-field handling of tree fruit crops; and (11) opportunity of robotics in precision horticulture.
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