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Multispectral detection of floral buds for automated thinning of pear
2015
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Thinning of pome and stone fruit involves the reduction of tree crop load in order to 14 regulate fruit set and quality. As it is typically carried out through manual labor, thinning comprises a 15 large part of a grower's production costs. Mechanized thinning has been shown to be a cost-effective 16 alternative but the performance of existing thinning devices needs to be further improved by taking 17 the variation in bearing capacity of the individual trees into account. 18 In this work, a
doi:10.1016/j.compag.2015.01.015
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