Finding the stem of every sugar beet makes mechanical weeding under the leaves possible — the hardest part of chemical-free weed control.
Agriculture
Stem detection
Mechanical weeding
Knowledge of the location of plants is required to control weeds efficiently with a minimum impact. Weed Beeter is a system that can detect weeds in sugar beets and support the development of intelligent weed control applications.
Weed Beeter has several detection and classification systems that can be used depending on the desired weed control strategy. It can:
- Detect sugar beets and weeds
- Estimate the plant cover
- Estimate the plants’ locations
- Locate the stems of sugar beets.
Detecting plants’ locations and cover can be used to control weeds using means that requires detecting the weeds’ canopy, such as precision sprayers. Detecting the stems makes it possible to do mechanical weeding under the crop leaves, which can be used for controlling weeding robots.
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