发明名称 |
TOPDRESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR |
摘要 |
A method of and apparatus for performing a topdressing operation on an agriculture field have been provided. The method comprises the steps of: individually and continuously taking pictures of crops planted on a field to obtain crop picture data; processing the crop picture data of each crop to investigate the growing state of each crop; performing a topdressing operation in view of the growing state of each crop. The apparatus comprises a movable main body such as a tractor; a topdressing device provided on the rear side of the movable main body; a video camera provided on the front side of the movable main body; a picture data processing computer adapted to process picture data fed from the video camera so as to measure the leaf size of each crop; a topdressing operation controlling computer adapted to produce a command to the topdressing device to control an amount of a fertilizer to be applied to a crop.
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申请公布号 |
CA2299941(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2000.09.05 |
申请号 |
CA20002299941 |
申请日期 |
2000.03.02 |
申请人 |
JAPAN AS REPRESENTED BY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF HOKKAIDO NATIONAL AGRICULTUR AL EXPERIMENT STATION |
发明人 |
MASUDA, KINYA;ISHIDA, SHIGEKI;TOYODA, MASAKAZU |
分类号 |
A01G7/00;A01B79/00;A01C21/00;A01C23/04;G06T1/00;H04N7/18;(IPC1-7):A01C21/00;A01C15/00;A01B71/02 |
主分类号 |
A01G7/00 |
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