Automated camera-based crop and irrigation monitoring

McCarthy, Alison (2016) Automated camera-based crop and irrigation monitoring. In: 18th Australian Cotton Conference (2016), 2-4 Aug 2016, Gold Coast, Australia.

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Abstract

Plant growth and irrigation advance rate monitoring is required for crop and irrigation management in broadacre surface irrigated fields. However, this monitoring is typically manual, labour-intensive and conducted in a limited number of locations in the field which may not represent the whole field. A thermal camera on a tower has been used to determine location of water in the field during surface irrigation events; and low-cost cameras on field vehicles and irrigation machines have been used to map cotton growth and fruiting. These systems potentially enable automation of surface irrigation cut-off to improve water use efficiency and improve agronomic and irrigation management.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Commonwealth Reporting Category E) (Speech)
Refereed:	No
Item Status:	Live Archive
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Institute for Agriculture and the Environment
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Institute for Agriculture and the Environment
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2017 07:08
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2020 04:16
Uncontrolled Keywords:	variable-rate irrigation, machine vision, automation
Fields of Research (2008):	07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences > 0701 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management > 070104 Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling 09 Engineering > 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering > 090602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences > 0703 Crop and Pasture Production > 070302 Agronomy
Fields of Research (2020):	30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3002 Agriculture, land and farm management > 300206 Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling 40 ENGINEERING > 4007 Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics > 400799 Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics not elsewhere classified 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3004 Crop and pasture production > 300403 Agronomy
Socio-Economic Objectives (2008):	D Environment > 96 Environment > 9609 Land and Water Management > 960905 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Water Management
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/30498

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