Title
Mapping almond orchard canopy volume, flowers, fruit and yield using lidar and vision sensors.
Abstract
•An efficient robotic and software system to map almond orchards is presented.•Cameras and lasers estimate canopy volume, flowers & fruit loading to predict yield.•A 2.3ha orchard block with 580 trees was scanned 3times per year for 2years.•Hand held cameras were used to estimate fruit load, with post-harvest validation.•Yield predicted with linear relationship to canopy volume over 2years, R2=0.77.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.compag.2016.09.014
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robotics,Sensing,Machine vision,Lidar,Multi-sensor fusion,Orchard yield mapping
Orchard,Machine vision,Remote sensing,Image processing,Lidar,Engineering,Logging,Canopy
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
130
0168-1699
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James Patrick Underwood144239.37
Calvin Hung2616.01
Brett Whelan391.98
Salah Sukkarieh41142141.84