Digital image sensor-based assessment of the status of oat (Avena sativa L.) crops after frost damage.
Sensors (Basel)
; 11(6): 6015-36, 2011.
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ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to classify the land covered with oat crops, and the quantification of frost damage on oats, while plants are still in the flowering stage. The images are taken by a digital colour camera CCD-based sensor. Unsupervised classification methods are applied because the plants present different spectral signatures, depending on two main factors illumination and the affected state. The colour space used in this application is CIELab, based on the decomposition of the colour in three channels, because it is the closest to human colour perception. The histogram of each channel is successively split into regions by thresholding. The best threshold to be applied is automatically obtained as a combination of three thresholding strategies (a) Otsu's method, (b) Isodata algorithm, and (c) Fuzzy thresholding. The fusion of these automatic thresholding techniques and the design of the classification strategy are some of the main findings of the paper, which allows an estimation of the damages and a prediction of the oat production.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Procesamiento de Imagen Asistido por Computador
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Avena
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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En
Revista:
Sensors (Basel)
Año:
2011
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Article